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Psalm 21
(Psalms 21 KJV) "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. 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."
A Psalm of effusive thanksgiving. But even here there is this hint of
ever present enemies. There are times in reading the Psalms that one gets
the feeling that it requires some level of tension to generate the song.
So many of them are written out of deep pain. This one is happy and
upbeat, but the enemies still must be dealt with.
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