1A thanksgiving for victory, 7with confidence of further success.
0To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1THE aking shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and bin thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
a Ps. 72.1; 20.6; 28.7; 99.4,7,8. Is. 50.7,9. b Ps. 13.5,6; 118.14. He. 12.2. Is. 53.10-12.
2Thou chast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
c Ps. 20.4,5; 66.19,20. Jn. 11.42. He. 7.25.
3For dthou *preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou esettest a crown of pure gold on his head.
*preventest-go before, anticipate.
d 1Sa. 16.13. 2Sa. 2.4; 5.3. Ps. 45.3; 59.10. Ac. 2.28. He. 2.9. Ca. 3.11. e 2Sa. 12.30.
4He fasked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
f 2Sa. 7.19. Ps. 91.16; 61.6; 16.10,11; 72.15. He. 7.25. Re. 1.18.
5His gglory is great in thy salvation: hhonour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
g 2Sa. 7.8,9,16. Phi. 2.7-11. Ep. 1.20-22. 1Pe. 3.22. Mat. 28.18. Ps. 8.5; 110.1. h Ps. 104.1.
6For ithou hast 1made him most blessed for ever: thou hast 2made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
1Heb. set him to be blessings. Ge. 12.2.
2Heb. gladdened him with joy. Ac. 2.28. Ps. 4.6,7; 16.11.
i Ps. 32.1; 119.1; 45.7; 72.17. Ac. 2.28; 3.26.
7For jthe king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
j 1Sa. 30.6. Ps. 26.1; 31.14; 91.2; 62.1-8; 50.7,9; 89.21-36; 110.1.
8Thine khand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
k Am. 9.2,3. 2Sa. 3.1; 5; 8; 10; 18; 20; 21. Ps. 89.23; 72.9; 110.5,6; 2.9.
9Thou lshalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
l De. 32.22. Mal. 4.1. Mat. 21.41,44; 22.7; 23.33-39; 24.2-51; 25.30,41,46. Lu. 19.27,42-44; 21.6-26; 23.28-30. 1Th. 2.16. Re. 6; 8; 9; 14; 16-20. 2Th. 2.8,9. Ps. 2.1-5,9. Pr. 1.25-29. Job 18; 20; 22. Is. 3.11; 26.11.
10Their mfruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
m Ps. 37.28.
11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which nthey are not able to perform.
n Ps. 2.1,4.
12Therefore 3shalt thou make them turn their 4back, when thou oshalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
3Or, thou shalt set them as a butt. Job 7.20; 16.12. La. 3.12.
4Heb. shoulder.
o Ps. 7.11-16; 64.6-10.
13Be pthou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and qpraise thy power.
p Job 9.19. Ps. 57.11; 72.19. q Re. 11.15-17; 19.1-6; 18.20; 16.5-7. Ps. 58.10,11; 48.11.