Psalms 21:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The king will be glad in your strength, O Lord; how great will be his delight in your salvation!

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  • Ps 28:7 : 7 The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.
  • Ps 59:16-17 : 16 But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble. 17 To you, O my strength, will I make my song: because God is my high tower, even the God of my mercy.
  • Ps 62:7 : 7 In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.
  • Ps 63:11 : 11 But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.
  • Ps 71:17-72:2 : 17 O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now. 18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come. 19 Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you? 20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld. 21 You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side. 22 I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel. 23 Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation. 24 My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame. 1 <Of Solomon.> Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son. 2 May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.
  • Ps 95:1 : 1 O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
  • Ps 99:4 : 4 The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
  • Ps 118:14-15 : 14 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. 15 The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.
  • Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
  • Matt 2:2 : 2 Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
  • Ps 2:6 : 6 But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.
  • Ps 20:5-6 : 5 We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests. 6 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.
  • Ps 20:9 : 9 Come to our help, Lord: let the king give ear to our cry.

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    5His glory is great in your salvation: honour and authority have you put on him.

    6For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

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    2You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)

  • Ps 35:9
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    9And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.

  • Ps 28:6-8
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    6May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.

    7The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

    8The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.

  • Ps 21:13
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    13Be lifted up, O Lord, in your strength; so will we make songs in praise of your power.

  • Ps 149:2
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    2Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

  • Ps 118:14-15
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    14The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.

    15The sound of joy and salvation is in the tents of the upright; the right hand of the Lord does works of power.

  • Ps 13:5
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    5But I have had faith in your mercy; my heart will be glad in your salvation.

  • Ps 20:5-6
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    5We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.

    6Now 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.

  • Ps 40:16
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    16Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May the Lord be great.

  • Ps 20:9
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    9Come to our help, Lord: let the king give ear to our cry.

  • Ps 9:14
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    14So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.

  • Ps 144:10
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    10It is God who gives salvation to kings; and who kept his servant David from the wounding sword.

  • Hab 3:18
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    18Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

  • Ps 3:8
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    8Salvation comes from the Lord; your blessing is on your people. (Selah.)

  • Ps 70:4
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    4Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.

  • Zeph 3:17
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    17The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

  • Ps 149:4
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    4For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.

  • Ps 89:16-17
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    16In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

    17For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

  • 2 Chr 6:41
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    41Up! now, O Lord God, come back to your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints be glad in what is good.

  • 2 Sam 22:47
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    47The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:

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    51Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.

  • Ps 71:23
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    23Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

  • 2 Sam 22:20
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    20He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

  • Ps 5:11
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    11But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.

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    1The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

  • 1 Sam 2:1
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    1And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.

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    46The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.

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    7O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.

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    21I will give you praise, for you have given me an answer, and have become my salvation.

  • Ps 33:1
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    2I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

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    21For in him our hearts have joy; in his holy name is our hope.

  • Ps 132:9
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    9Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints give cries of joy.

  • Ps 92:4
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    4For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will have joy in the works of your hands.

  • 1 Chr 16:31
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    31Let the heavens have joy and let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, The Lord is King.

  • Ps 138:4
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    4All the kings of the earth will give you praise, O Lord, when the words of your mouth come to their ears.

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    1<To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,> I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.

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    174All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

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    2And he said, The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour, even mine;

  • Ps 27:6
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    6And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.

  • Ps 30:1
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    1<A Psalm. A Song at the blessing of the House. Of David.> I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.