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Psalms 21:7

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— For the king trusts in the LORD, And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he will not be shaken.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— For the king trusteth in Jehovah; And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— For the king confideth in Jehovah: and through the loving-kindness of the Most High he shall not be moved.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— For, the king, is trusting in Yahweh, and, in the lovingkindness of the Highest, shall he not be shaken.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— For the king is trusting in Jehovah, And in the kindness of the Most High He is not moved.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— For the king hopeth in the Lord: and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Because the King trusteth in the Lord, and in the mercie of the most High, he shall not slide.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— For the King trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High, he shall not be moued.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— For the king trusteth in Yahweh, and through the mercy of Elyon he shall not be moved.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
For x3588
(3588) Complement
כִּי
kiy
{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
the king 4428
{4428} Prime
מֶּלֶךְ
melek
{meh'-lek}
From H4427; a king.
trusteth 982
{0982} Prime
בָּטַח
batach
{baw-takh'}
A primitive root; properly to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as H2620); figuratively to trust, be confident or sure.
z8802
<8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Active (See H8814)
Count - 5386
in Yähwè יָהוֶה, 3068
{3068} Prime
יְהֹוָה
Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
and through the mercy 2617
{2617} Prime
חֶסֶד
checed
{kheh'-sed}
From H2616; kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opprobrium) reproof, or (subjectively) beauty.
of `Elyôn עֶליוֹן 5945
{5945} Prime
עֶלְיוֹן
'elyown
{el-yone'}
From H5927; an elevation, that is, (adjectively) lofty (comparatively); as title, the Supreme.
he shall not x1077
(1077) Complement
בַּל
bal
{bal}
From H1086; properly a failure; by implication nothing; usually (adverbially) not at all; also lest.
be moved. 4131
{4131} Prime
מוֹט
mowt
{mote}
A primitive root; to waver; by implication to slip, shake, fall.
z8735
<8735> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 1602
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Psalms 21:7

_ _ The mediate cause is the king’s faith, the efficient, God’s mercy.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

Psalms 21:7-13

_ _ The psalmist, having taught his people to look back with joy and praise on what God had done for him and them, here teaches them to look forward with faith, and hope, and prayer, upon what God would further do for them: The king rejoices in God (Psalms 21:1), and therefore we will be thankful; the king trusteth in God (Psalms 21:7), therefore will we be encouraged. The joy and confidence of Christ our King is the ground of all our joy and confidence.

_ _ I. They are confident of the stability of David's kingdom. Through the mercy of the Most High, and not through his own merit or strength, he shall not be moved. His prosperous state shall not be disturbed; his faith and hope in God, which are the stay of his spirit, shall not be shaken. The mercy of the Most High (the divine goodness, power, and dominion) is enough to secure our happiness, and therefore our trust in that mercy should be enough to silence all our fears. God being at Christ's right hand in his sufferings (Psalms 16:8) and he being at God's right hand in his glory, we may be sure he shall not, he cannot, be moved, but continues ever.

_ _ II. They are confident of the destruction of all the impenitent implacable enemies of David's kingdom. The success with which God had blessed David's arms hitherto was an earnest of the rest which God would give him from all his enemies round about, and a type of the total overthrow of all Christ's enemies who would not have him to reign over them. Observe, 1. The description of his enemies. They are such as hate him, Psalms 21:8. They hated David because God had set him apart for himself, hated Christ because they hated the light; but both were hated without any just cause, and in both God was hated, John 15:23, John 15:25. 2. The designs of his enemies (Psalms 21:11): They intended evil against thee, and imagined a mischievous device; they pretended to fight against David only, but their enmity was against God himself. Those that aimed to un-king David aimed, in effect, to un-God Jehovah. What is devised and designed against religion, and against the instruments God raises up to support and advance it, is very evil and mischievous, and God takes it as devised and designed against himself and will so reckon for it. (3.) The disappointment of them: “They devise what they are not able to perform,Psalms 21:11. Their malice is impotent, and they imagine a vain thing, Psalms 2:1. (4.) The discovery of them (Psalms 21:8): “Thy hand shall find them out. Though ever so artfully disguised by the pretences and professions of friendship, though mingled with the faithful subjects of this kingdom and hardly to be distinguished from them, though flying from justice and absconding in their close places, yet thy hand shall find them out wherever they are.” There is no escaping God's avenging eye, no going out of the reach of his hand; rocks and mountains will be no better shelter at last than fig-leaves were at first. (5.) The destruction of them; it will be an utter destruction (Luke 19:27); they shall be swallowed up and devoured, Psalms 21:9. Hell, the portion of all Christ's enemies, is the complete misery both of body and soul. Their fruit and their seed shall be destroyed, Psalms 21:10. The enemies of God's kingdom, in every age, shall fall under the same doom, and the whole generation of them will at last be rooted out, and all opposing rule, principality, and power, shall be put down. The arrows of God's wrath shall confound them and put them to flight, being levelled at the face of them, Psalms 21:12. That will be the lot of daring enemies that face God. The fire of God's wrath will consume them (Psalms 21:9); they shall not only be cast into a furnace of fire (Matthew 13:42), but he shall make them themselves as a fiery oven or furnace; they shall be their own tormentors; the reflections and terrors of their own consciences will be their hell. Those that might have had Christ to rule and save them, but rejected him and fought against him, shall find that even the remembrance of that will be enough to make them, to eternity, a fiery oven to themselves: it is the worm that dies not.

_ _ III. In this confidence they beg of God that he would still appear for his anointed (Psalms 21:13), that he would act for him in his own strength, by the immediate operations of his power as Lord of hosts and Father of spirits, making little use of means and instruments. And, 1. Hereby he would exalt himself and glorify his own name. “We have but little strength, and are not so active for thee as we should be, which is our shame; Lord, take the work into thy own hands, do it, without us, and it will be thy glory.” 2. Hereupon they would exalt him: “So will we sing, and praise thy power, the more triumphantly.” The less God has of our service when a deliverance is in the working the more he must have of our praises when it is wrought without us.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
For the:

Psalms 13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Psalms 18:2 The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.
Psalms 20:7-8 Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. ... They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Psalms 26:1 [[[A Psalm] of David.]] Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.
Psalms 61:4 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
Psalms 61:6-7 Thou wilt prolong the king's life: [and] his years as many generations. ... He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, [which] may preserve him.
Psalms 91:2 I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Psalms 91:9-10 Because thou hast made the LORD, [which is] my refuge, [even] the most High, thy habitation; ... There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
Matthew 27:43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
Hebrews 2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.

most:

Psalms 9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
Deuteronomy 32:8-9 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. ... For the LORD'S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.

he shall:

Psalms 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me: because [he is] at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Daniel 7:14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed.
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Dt 32:8. 1S 30:6. Ps 9:2; 13:5; 16:8; 18:2; 20:7; 26:1; 61:4, 6; 91:2, 9. Dn 7:14. Mt 27:43. He 2:13.

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