the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 20:1
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For the choir director: A psalm of David.
In times of trouble, may the Lord answer your cry. May the name of the God of Jacob keep you safe from all harm.For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The LORD answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set you up on high;
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
May the Lord answer you in times of trouble. May the God of Jacob protect you.For the music director; a psalm of David.
May the Lord answer you when you are in trouble; may the God of Jacob make you secure!To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.
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May the LORD answer you (David) in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high [and defend you in battle]!
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!The title of the nyntenthe salm. To victorie, the salm of Dauid. The Lord here thee in the dai of tribulacioun; the name of God of Jacob defende thee.
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
(A psalm by David for the music leader.)
I pray that the Lord will listen when you are in trouble, and that the God of Jacob will keep you safe.For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;For the leader. A psalm of David:
To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob protect thee;To the director: A song of David.
May the Lord answer you in times of trouble. May the God of Jacob protect you.For the Leader. A Psalm of David.
[To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.] The Lord heare thee in the day of trouble, the Name of the God of Iacob defend thee.
May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob keep you safe.
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
The Lord answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The Lorde heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of ye God of Iaakob defend thee:
MAY the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
May the Lord answer you when you are in trouble! May the God of Jacob protect you!
(19-1) <Unto the end. A psalm for David.> (19-2) May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The LORD answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!
God heare thee in the day of trouble: the name of the Lorde of Iacob defende thee.
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.
May the Lord answer you in a day of trouble;may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.
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For the music director. A psalm of David.
May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of Jacob's God protect you.To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. May Jehovah answer you in the day of distress; the name of the God of Jacob set you on high.
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Jehovah doth answer thee, In a day of adversity, The name of the God of Jacob doth set thee on high,
The LORDE heare the in the tyme off trouble, the name of the God of Iacob defende the.
A David Psalm God answer you on the day you crash, The name God-of-Jacob put you out of harm's reach, Send reinforcements from Holy Hill, Dispatch from Zion fresh supplies, Exclaim over your offerings, Celebrate your sacrifices, Give you what your heart desires, Accomplish your plans.
May the LORD answer you on a day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!
May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; May the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!May Yahweh answer you in the day of distress!May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 2968, bc 1036
hear: Psalms 41:1, Psalms 46:1, Psalms 50:5, Psalms 60:11, Psalms 91:15, Psalms 138:7, Jeremiah 30:7, Matthew 26:38, Matthew 26:39, Hebrews 5:7
name: Psalms 9:10, Psalms 83:18, Exodus 34:5-7, Proverbs 18:10, Isaiah 50:10
God: Psalms 46:7, Psalms 46:11, Genesis 32:27-29, Genesis 48:15, Genesis 48:16, Exodus 3:13-15
defend: Heb. set thee on an high place, Psalms 18:2, Psalms 91:14, Psalms 114:2
Reciprocal: Joshua 1:17 - only the Lord 1 Kings 1:47 - bless 2 Chronicles 6:19 - to hearken Psalms 9:9 - be a refuge Psalms 59:9 - defence Psalms 89:24 - in my Psalms 108:12 - Give Psalms 118:12 - in the name Isaiah 38:3 - Remember Nahum 1:7 - in the 1 Timothy 2:2 - kings 3 John 1:2 - that
Cross-References
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble,.... All the days of Christ were days of trouble; he was a brother born for adversity; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with griefs; he had his own sorrows, and he bore the griefs of others; he was persecuted by Herod in his infancy; he was tempted by Satan in the wilderness; he was harassed by the Scribes and Pharisees continually; he was grieved at the hardness, impenitence, and unbelief, of that perverse and faithless generation of men, and was sometimes made uneasy by his own disciples: at some particular seasons his soul or spirit is said to be troubled, as at the grave of Lazarus, and when in a view of his own death, and when he was about to acquaint his disciples that one of them should betray him,
John 11:33; but more particularly it was a day of trouble with him, when he was in the garden, heavy, and sore amazed, and his sweat was, as it were, drops of blood falling on the ground, and his soul was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; but more especially this was his case when he hung upon the cross, and is what seems to be principally respected here; when he was in great torture of body through the rack of the cross; when he endured the cruel mockings of men, of the common people, of the chief priests, and even of the thieves that suffered with him; when he had Satan, and all his principalities and powers, let loose upon him, and he was grappling with them; when he bore all the sins of his people, endured the wrath of his Father, and was forsaken by him: now in this day of trouble, both when in the garden and on the cross, he prayed unto his Father, as he had been used to do in other cases, and at other times; and the church here prays, that God would hear and answer him, as he did: he always heard him; he heard him at the grave of Lazarus; he heard him in the garden, and filled his human soul with courage and intrepidity, of which there were immediate instances; he heard him on the cross, and helped him as man and Mediator, Isaiah 49:8;
the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; that is, God himself, who is named the God of Jacob, whom Jacob called upon, and trusted in as his God, and who answered him in the day of his distress: Jacob was exercised with many troubles, but the Lord delivered him out of them all; and which may be the reason why the Lord is addressed under this character here; besides, Israel is one of the names of the Messiah,
Isaiah 49:3; on whose account the petition is put to which may be added, that Jacob may design people of God, the spiritual sons of Jacob, the church of the living God, whose God the Lord is; and the phrase may be here used by the church, to encourage her faith in prayer: the petition, on account of the Messiah, is, that God would "defend" him, or "set" him on "an high place" n; or "exalt" him: he was brought very low in his state of humiliation; he was in the form of a servant; he was in a very low and mean condition throughout the whole of his life; through the suffering of death he was made lower than the angels, and he was laid in the lower parts of the earth: the church, in this petition, prays for his resurrection from the dead; for his ascension into the highest heavens; for his exaltation at the right hand of God; for the more visible setting him on his throne in his kingdom; in all which she has been answered.
n ×ש××× "elevet te", Pagninus, Montanus; "exaltet te", Vatablus, Museulus, Michaelis; "in edito collocet te", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble - According to the view expressed in the introduction to the psalm, this is the language of the people praying for their king, or expressing the hope that he would be delivered from trouble, and would be successful in what he had undertaken, in the prosecution of a war apparently of defense. The wordâ troubleâ here used would seem to imply that he was beset with difficulties and dangers; perhaps, that he was surrounded by foes. It seems that he was going forth to war to deliver his country from trouble, having offered sacrifices and prayers Psalms 20:3 for the purpose of securing the divine favor on the expedition. The point or the moment of the psalm is when those sacrifices had been offered, and when he was about to embark on his enterprise. At that moment the people lift up the voice of sympathy and of encouragement, and pray that those sacrifices might be accepted, and that he might find the deliverance which he had desired.
The name of the God of Jacob - The word name is often put in the Scriptures for the person himself; and hence, this is equivalent to saying, âMay the God of Jacob defend thee.â See Psalms 5:11; Psalms 9:10; Psalms 44:5; Psalms 54:1; Exodus 23:21. Jacob was the one of the patriarchs from whom, after his other name, the Hebrew people derived their name Israel, and the word seems here to be used with reference to the people rather than to the ancestor. Compare Isaiah 44:2. The God of Jacob, or the God of Israel, would be synonymous terms, and either would denote that he was the Protector of the nation. As such he is invoked here; and the prayer is, that the Great Protector of the Hebrew people would now defend the king in the dangers which beset him, and in the enterprise which he had undertaken.
Defend thee - Margin, as in Hebrew, set thee on a high place. The word means the same as defend him, for the idea is that of being set on a high place, a tower, a mountain, a lofty rock, where his enemies could not reach or assail him.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM XX
A prayer for the king in his enterprises, that his prayers may
be heard, his offerings accepted, and his wishes fulfilled,
1-4.
Confidence of victory expressed, 5, 6.
Vain hopes exposed; and supplication made for the king. 7-9.
NOTES ON PSALM XX
It is most likely that this Psalm was penned on the occasion of David's going to war, and most probably with the Ammonites and Syrians, who came with great numbers of horses and chariots to fight with him. See 2 Samuel 10:6-8; 1 Chronicles 19:7. It is one of the Dialogue Psalms, and appears to be thus divided: Previously to his undertaking the war, David comes to the tabernacle to offer sacrifice. This being done, the people, in the king's behalf, offer up their prayers; these are included in the three first verses: the fourth was probably spoken by the high priest; the fifth, by David and his attendants; the last clause, by the high priest; the sixth, by the high priest, after the victim was consumed; the seventh and eighth, by David and his men; and the ninth, as a chorus by all the congregation.
Verse Psalms 20:1. The Lord hear thee — David had already offered the sacrifice and prayed. The people implore God to succour him in the day of trouble; of both personal and national danger.
The name of the God of Jacob — This refers to Jacob's wrestling with the Angel; Genesis 32:24, &c. And who was this Angel? Evidently none other than the Angel of the Covenant, the Lord Jesus, in whom was the name of God, the fulness of the Godhead bodily. He was the God of Jacob, who blessed Jacob, and gave him a new name and a new nature. See the notes on the above place in Genesis.
