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World English Bible

Psalm 21 (WEBP)

[1] The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
[2] You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.
[3] For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
[4] He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.
[5] His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.
[6] For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
[7] For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
[8] Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
[9] You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
[10] You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
[11] For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
[12] For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.
[13] Be exalted, Yahweh, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Psalm 21 (KJVS)

[1] The king shall joy () in thy strength, O Lord; And in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! ()
[2] Thou hast given () him his heart’s desire, And hast not withholden () the request of his lips. Selah.
[3] For thou preventest () him with the blessings of goodness: Thou settest () a crown of pure gold on his head.
[4] He asked () life of thee, and thou gavest () it him, Even length of days for ever and ever.
[5] His glory is great in thy salvation: Honour and majesty hast thou laid () upon him.
[6] For thou hast made () him most blessed for ever: Thou hast made () him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
[7] For the king trusteth () in the Lord, And through the mercy of the Most High he shall not be moved. ()
[8] Thine hand shall find out () all thine enemies: () Thy right hand shall find out () those that hate () thee.
[9] Thou shalt 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.
[10] Their fruit shalt thou destroy () from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.
[11] For they intended () evil against thee: They imagined () a mischievous device, which they are not able () to perform.
[12] Therefore shalt thou make () them turn their back, When thou shalt make ready () thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
[13] Be thou exalted, () Lord, in thine own strength: So will we sing () and praise () thy power.

Psalm 21:6a Heb. set him to be blessings
Psalm 21:6b Heb. gladded him with joy
Psalm 21:12a Or, thou shalt set them as a butte
Psalm 21:12b Heb. shoulder

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Psalm 21 (BYZ)

[1] Εἰς () τὸ () τέλος· () ψαλμὸς () τῷ () Δαυιδ. () Κύριε, () ἐν () τῇ () δυνάμει () σου () εὐφρανθήσεται () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () καὶ () ἐπὶ () τῷ () σωτηρίῳ () σου () ἀγαλλιάσεται () σφόδρα. ()
[2] Τὴν () ἐπιθυμίαν () τῆς () ψυχῆς () αὐτοῦ () ἔδωκας () αὐτῷ () καὶ () τὴν () θέλησιν () τῶν () χειλέων () αὐτοῦ () οὐκ () ἐστέρησας () αὐτόν. () Διάψαλμα.
[3] Ὅτι () προέφθασας () αὐτὸν () ἐν () εὐλογίαις () χρηστότητος, () ἔθηκας () ἐπὶ () τὴν () κεφαλὴν () αὐτοῦ () στέφανον () ἐκ () λίθου () τιμίου. ()
[4] Ζωὴν () ᾐτήσατό () σε, () καὶ () ἔδωκας () αὐτῷ, () μακρότητα ἡμερῶν () εἰς () αἰῶνα () αἰῶνος. ()
[5] Μεγάλη () ἡ () δόξα () αὐτοῦ () ἐν () τῷ () σωτηρίῳ () σου, () δόξαν () καὶ () μεγαλοπρέπειαν ἐπιθήσεις () ἐπ’ () αὐτόν· ()
[6] ὅτι () δώσεις () αὐτῷ () εὐλογίαν () εἰς () αἰῶνα () αἰῶνος, () εὐφρανεῖς () αὐτὸν () ἐν () χαρᾷ () μετὰ () τοῦ () προσώπου () σου. ()
[7] Ὅτι () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () ἐλπίζει () ἐπὶ () κύριον () καὶ () ἐν () τῷ () ἐλέει () τοῦ () ὑψίστου () οὐ () μὴ () σαλευθῇ. ()
[8] Εὑρεθείη () ἡ () χείρ () σου () πᾶσιν () τοῖς () ἐχθροῖς () σου, () ἡ () δεξιά () σου () εὕροι () πάντας () τοὺς () μισοῦντάς () σε. ()
[9] Θήσεις () αὐτοὺς () ὡς () κλίβανον () πυρὸς () εἰς () καιρὸν () τοῦ () προσώπου () σου· () κύριος () ἐν () ὀργῇ () αὐτοῦ () συνταράξει αὐτούς, () καὶ () καταφάγεται () αὐτοὺς () πῦρ. ()
[10] Τὸν () καρπὸν () αὐτῶν () ἀπὸ () γῆς () ἀπολεῖς () καὶ () τὸ () σπέρμα () αὐτῶν () ἀπὸ () υἱῶν () ἀνθρώπων, ()
[11] ὅτι () ἔκλιναν () εἰς () σὲ () κακά, () διελογίσαντο () βουλήν, () ἣν () οὐ () μὴ () δύνωνται () στῆσαι. ()
[12] Ὅτι () θήσεις () αὐτοὺς () νῶτον· () ἐν () τοῖς () περιλοίποις σου () ἑτοιμάσεις () τὸ () πρόσωπον () αὐτῶν. ()
[13] Ὑψώθητι, () κύριε, () ἐν () τῇ () δυνάμει () σου· () ᾄσομεν () καὶ () ψαλοῦμεν () τὰς () δυναστείας σου. ()

Psalm 21:1 Originally verses 20:1–2.
Psalm 21:2 Originally verse 20:3.
Psalm 21:3 Originally verse 20:4.
Psalm 21:4 Originally verse 20:5.
Psalm 21:5 Originally verse 20:6.
Psalm 21:6 Originally verse 20:7.
Psalm 21:7 Originally verse 20:8.
Psalm 21:8 Originally verse 20:9.
Psalm 21:9 Originally verse 20:10.
Psalm 21:10 Originally verse 20:11.
Psalm 21:11 Originally verse 20:12.
Psalm 21:12 Originally verse 20:13.
Psalm 21:13 Originally verse 20:14.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, Inc., Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.