“ Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call. ”
Save, Lord - “ Yahweh, save.” This is still an earnest prayer. Confident as they are of success and triumph, yet they do not forget their dependence on God; they do not forget that victory must co...
Save, LORD: (h) let the king hear us when we call. (h) Let the king be able to deliver us by your strength, when we seek him for help.
XX. A prayer for deliverance from national disaster, changing (probably after the sacrifice has been offered) into confidence at Psalms 20:6 ; Now know I, etc. The mention of a king or anointed on...
Save, LORD , or,. LORD, save. Or, with Septuagint, "Jehovah save the king". Compare Psalms 20:6 . when . in the day when. See App-18.
9. Save, O Jehovah! etc. Some read in one sentence, O Jehovah! save the king; (478) perhaps because they think it wrong to attribute to an earthly king what is proper to God only, — to b...
Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call. Save, Lord - This verse was spoken by all the congregation, and was the chorus and conclusion of the piece. The verse may be read, Lord, save the king!...
Save, Lord, &c.— Lord, save the king: He will hear us, when we call: Or, And hear us, when we call. Houbigant and Mudge. REFLECTIONS.— We have here, 1. The matter of the people's reque...
Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call. Save, Lord. The renewed prayer has relation to Psalms 20:6 , "the Lord saveth;" "Save Lord," Psalms 20:9 ; "he will hear him," Psalms 20:6 ; "...
This and the following Ps. form a closely connected pair. The one is a prayer for a king going out to battle, and the other is a thanksgiving for his triumphant return. Both have the same title. Ther...
Save Lord... — The Authorised Version follows the accentuation of the Masoretic text, but spoils the rhythm, and interrupts the sense. The LXX. and Vulg., followed by all modern commentators, divid...
Psalms 20:1-9 THIS is a battle song followed by a chant of victory. They are connected in subject and probably in occasion, but fight and triumph have fallen dim to us, though we can still feel ho...
the Saving Strength of God's Right Hand Psalms 20:1-9 This may have been written on such an occasion as 2 Samuel 10:1-19 . The prayer of the soldiers, Psalms 20:1-4 . Ready, drawn up for...
This and the next psalms are certainly closely connected. The first is the prayer of the people on behalf of the king as he goes forth to battle. The first five verses were sung in chorus and express...
Beautiful and striking contrast! and which is manifested in the experience of the world every day, in the different characters: the faithful in their deliverances, and the ungodly in their false conf...
Psalms 19 Proper Psalm for Christmas Day ( Morning ). Psalms 19-21 = Day 4 ( Morning ).
Save, Lord ,.... Not "the king", as the Septuagint, Ethiopic, and Arabic versions read the words, joining the word "king" to them, which is in the next clause; but this, as Aben Ezra observes, is no...
Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call. Ver. 9. Save, Lord ] A short but pithy prayer: Quam multa quam paucis. Let the king hear us] They beg of God that the king may hear them, so as t...
Some trust in chariots This again was spoken by the people. The word trust is not in the Hebrew, which is more literally translated, These in their chariots, and those on their horses, but we wi...
The Subject's Prayer for the Sovereign. 6 Now know I that the L ORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his hol...
Either, 1. David. So the sense is, O Lord, preserve and assist the king, that when we are distressed and cry to him for help, he may be able and ready to help us. Or, 2. God, the supreme Monarch,...
The People Again Respond Asserting Their Total Dependence on YHWH ( Psalms 20:7-9 ). Psalms 20:7 ‘Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, But we will make mention of the name of YHWH our G...
INTRODUCTION “This is evidently a liturgical psalm, and was intended originally, it would seem, to be sung on behalf of a king who was about to go forth to war against his enemies. As the king stand...
The 20 th Psalm is a prayer for the king going forth to the conflict, a prayer for David; better still, a prayer for great David's greater Son. The 21 st Psalm is a song of victory for the returning...
Psalms 20:1 . The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble. We read in Psalms 83 . that nearly all the surrounding nations, after David was made king, entered into a league to demolish the Jewish nat...
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble. A battle prayer This, it is believed, is the battle prayer or litany which was solemnly chanted in the sanctuary on the eve of the great expedition to...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm seems to have been composed for a special occasion, when David was about to proceed on an expedition against a foreign enemy. It is liturgical, and written to be recited...
Prayer in Time of War. To the chief musician, a psalm of David, evidently composed to be sung by the Tabernacle chorus while the king and his army were in the field, the purpose being to implore J...
Matthew 21:15 ; Matthew 21:9 ; Psalms 2:6-10 ; Psalms 24:7 ; Psalms 44:4 ; Psalms 5:2 ; Psalms 74:12 ; Psalms 118:25 ; Psalms 118:26
Let the king — God, the supreme monarch, the king of kings, and in a peculiar manner the king of Israel.