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Psalms 20:6

Now I am sure that the Lord will deliver his chosen king; he will intervene for him from his holy heavenly temple, and display his mighty ability to deliver.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anointing;   Faith;   Heaven;   The Topic Concordance - Anointing;   Hearing;   Salvation;   Trust;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anointing of the Holy Spirit;   Heaven;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - King;   Messiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Christ, Christology;   Messiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Holiness;   Psalms;   Salvation, Saviour;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Solomon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Anointing;   Bible, the;   Death, Second;   Holy Spirit;   Intercession;   Omnipresence;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now I know that the Lord gives victory to his anointed;he will answer him from his holy heavenwith mighty victories from his right hand.
Hebrew Names Version
Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, With the saving strength of his right hand.
King James Version
Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
English Standard Version
Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.
New Century Version
Now I know the Lord helps his appointed king. He answers him from his holy heaven and saves him with his strong right hand.
Amplified Bible
Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand.
New American Standard Bible
Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand.
World English Bible
Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, With the saving strength of his right hand.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Now know I that the Lord will helpe his anointed, and will heare him from his Sanctuarie, by the mightie helpe of his right hand.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now I know that Yahweh saves His anointed;He will answer him from His holy heavenWith the saving might of His right hand.
Berean Standard Bible
Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.
Contemporary English Version
I am certain, Lord , that you will help your chosen king. You will answer my prayers from your holy place in heaven, and you will save me with your mighty arm.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then we will shout for joy at your victory and fly our flags in the name of our God. May Adonai fulfill all your requests.
Darby Translation
Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; he answereth him from the heavens of his holiness, with the saving strength of his right hand.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now I know the Lord helps his chosen king. From his holy heaven he answered. With his great power he saved him.
George Lamsa Translation
Henceforth it is known that the LORD has saved his anointed; and has heard him from his holy heaven and saved with the strength of his right hand.
Good News Translation
Now I know that the Lord gives victory to his chosen king; he answers him from his holy heaven and by his power gives him great victories.
Lexham English Bible
Now I know that Yahweh will help his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the victorious power of his right hand.
Literal Translation
Now I know that Jehovah saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy Heaven with the saving strengths of His right hand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now knowe I, that the LORDE helpeth his anoynted, and will heare him fro his holy heauen: mightie is the helpe of his right hode.
American Standard Version
Now know I that Jehovah saveth his anointed; He will answer him from his holy heaven With the saving strength of his right hand.
Bible in Basic English
Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
We will shout for joy in thy victory, and in the name of our God we will set up our standards;
King James Version (1611)
Now know I, that the Lord saueth his Anointed: he wil heare him from his holy heauen, with the sauing strength of his right hand.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe I knowe that God wyll saue his annoynted, he wyll heare him from his heauenly sanctuarie: there is saluation in the mightinesse of his right hande.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty.
English Revised Version
Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he wilt answer him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord fille alle thin axyngis; nowe Y haue knowe, that the Lord hath maad saaf his crist. He schal here hym fro his hooly heuene; the helthe of his riyt hond is in poweris.
Update Bible Version
Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed; He will answer him from his holy heaven With the saving strength of his right hand.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now I know that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
New King James Version
Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand.
New Living Translation
Now I know that the Lord rescues his anointed king. He will answer him from his holy heaven and rescue him by his great power.
New Life Bible
Now I know that the Lord saves His chosen one. He will answer him from His holy heaven, with the saving power of His right hand.
New Revised Standard
Now I know that the Lord will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, do I know that Yahweh, hath saved, his Anointed One, - He answereth him out of his holy heavens, by the mighty saving deeds of his own right hand.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(19-7) The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is in powers.
Revised Standard Version
Now I know that the LORD will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.
Young's Literal Translation
Now I have known That Jehovah hath saved His anointed, He answereth him from His holy heavens, With the saving might of His right hand.
THE MESSAGE
That clinches it—help's coming, an answer's on the way, everything's going to work out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven With the saving strength of His right hand.

Contextual Overview

6 Now I am sure that the Lord will deliver his chosen king; he will intervene for him from his holy heavenly temple, and display his mighty ability to deliver. 7 Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we depend on the Lord our God. 8 They will fall down, but we will stand firm. 9 The Lord will deliver the king; he will answer us when we call to him for help!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Now: Psalms 2:2, Psalms 18:50, Psalms 28:8, Psalms 89:20-23, Acts 2:36, Acts 4:10

he will: 1 Kings 8:30, 1 Kings 8:43, Matthew 6:9

his holy heaven: Heb. the heaven of his holiness, Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 63:15

with: etc. Heb. by the strength of the salvation of his right hand, Psalms 17:7, Psalms 18:35, Acts 2:33, Acts 5:31

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:10 - anointed Psalms 21:1 - The king Psalms 44:3 - thy right Psalms 60:5 - save Psalms 108:10 - who will lead Isaiah 10:27 - because Zechariah 4:6 - might Zechariah 12:5 - The inhabitants

Cross-References

Genesis 3:3
but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, ‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.'"
Genesis 20:6
Then in the dream God replied to him, "Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.
Genesis 20:7
But now give back the man's wife. Indeed he is a prophet and he will pray for you; thus you will live. But if you don't give her back, know that you will surely die along with all who belong to you."
Genesis 20:18
For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 26:11
So Abimelech commanded all the people, "Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
Genesis 31:7
but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
Genesis 35:5
and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Genesis 39:9
There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?"
Exodus 34:24
For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
Leviticus 6:2
"When a person sins and commits a trespass against the Lord by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now know I that the Lord saveth his Anointed,.... Not David, though he was the anointed of the God of Jacob, and was anointed with material oil to be king of Israel by Samuel, at the express order of God himself; but David is not here speaking of himself, nor the church of him, but of the Messiah; anointed by Jehovah king over his holy hill of Zion, with the oil of gladness, or the Holy Spirit. The church in prayer rises in her faith, and is strongly assured of the salvation of the Messiah; that though his troubles would be many and great, he should be delivered out of them all; should be heard and helped in the day of salvation, and be freed from the sorrows of death and hell, he should be encompassed with; that he should be raised from the dead; have all power in heaven and earth given him; ascend on high, and triumph over all his enemies; and all his people, all the members of his body, should be saved through him, which is in a sense the salvation of himself;

he will hear him from his holy heaven; where his throne and temple are, which is the habitation of his holiness, whither the prayers of the Messiah when on earth ascended, where they were received, heard, and answered. Before the church prays that he might be heard, now she believes he would; and that,

with the saving strength of his right hand; that is, by the exertion of his mighty power, in strengthening him as man to bear up under his sorrows, go through his work, and finish it; by upholding him with his right hand while engaged in it, and by raising him up from the dead with it, and setting him down at it in the highest heavens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed - Saveth, or will save, the king, who had been anointed, or consecrated by anointing to that office. Compare the note at Psalms 2:2. This, according to the view given in the introduction, is the response of the king. It expresses his confident assurance of success from the interest which the people had expressed in the enterprise, as referred to in the previous verses, and from the earnestness of their prayers in his behalf and in behalf of the enterprise. They had manifested such zeal in the cause, and they had offered so earnest petitions, that he could not doubt that God would smile favorably on the undertaking, and would grant success.

He will hear him from his holy heaven - Margin, “from the heaven of his holiness.” So the Hebrew. Compare 1 Chronicles 21:26; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Nehemiah 9:27-28; Psalms 14:2; Psalms 102:19. heaven is represented as the dwelling-place of God, and it is there that he hears and answers our prayers. The meaning of the word “hear” in this passage is, that he will “favorably hear,” or regard; that is, that he will “answer” the petition, or grant the request.

With the saving strength - That is, he will interpose with that saving strength. Literally, “with the strengths of salvation.” The answer to the prayer will be manifest in the strength or power put forth by him to save.

Of his right hand - The right hand is the instrument by which mainly we execute our purposes; and by constant use it becomes in fact more fully developed, and is stronger than the left band. Hence, it is used to denote “strength.” See Exodus 15:6; Judges 5:26; see Psalms 17:7, note; Psalms 18:35, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 20:6. Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed — These are probably the words of the priest after the victim had been consumed; and those signs had accompanied the offering, which were proofs of God's acceptance of the sacrifice; and, consequently, that the campaign would have a successful issue. David is God's anointed; therefore, he is under his especial care. He will hear him. David must continue to pray, and to depend on God; else he cannot expect continual salvation. David has vast multitudes of enemies against him; he, therefore, requires supernatural help. Because of this, God will hear him with the saving strength of his right hand.

The HAND of God is his power, the RIGHT hand, his almighty power; the STRENGTH of his right hand, his almighty power in action; the SAVING strength of his right hand, the miraculous effects wrought by his almighty power brought into action. This is what David was to expect; and it was the prospect of this that caused him and his officers to exult as they do in the following verse.


 
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