Psalm 21, side by side

¹The king rejoices in your strength, the LORD! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!

¹The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

²You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.

²Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

³For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

³For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

⁴He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

⁴He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

⁵His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.

⁵His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

⁶For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

⁶For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

⁷For the king trusts in the LORD. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

⁷For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

⁸Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

⁸Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

⁹You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

⁹Thou 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.

¹⁰You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

¹⁰Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

¹¹For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

¹¹For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

¹²For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

¹²Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

¹³Be exalted, the LORD, in your strength, so we will sing and praise your power.

¹³Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.