7 For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel. For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, But we trust the name of Yahweh our God. They are bowed down and fallen, But we rise up, and stand upright.
> Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
You will prolong the king's life; His years shall be for generations. He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
I will say of Yahweh, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust."
There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, 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.
He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
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Commentary on Psalms 21 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 21
As the foregoing psalm was a prayer for the king that God would protect and prosper him, so this is a thanksgiving for the success God had blessed him with. Those whom we have prayed for we ought to give thanks for, and particularly for kings, in whose prosperity we share. They are here taught,
In this there is an eye to Messiah the Prince, and the glory of his kingdom; for to him divers passages in this psalm are more applicable than to David himself.
To the chief musician. A psalm of David.
Psa 21:1-6
David here speaks for himself in the first place, professing that his joy was in God's strength and in his salvation, and not in the strength or success of his armies. He also directs his subjects herein to rejoice with him, and to give God all the glory of the victories he had obtained; and all with an eye to Christ, of whose triumphs over the powers of darkness David's victories were but shadows.
In singing this we should rejoice in his joy and triumph in his exaltation.
Psa 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 (v. 1), and therefore we will be thankful; the king trusteth in God (v. 7), therefore will we be encouraged. The joy and confidence of Christ our King is the ground of all our joy and confidence.