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Contemporary English Version

Psalms 20:6

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.

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.
New English Translation
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.
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.
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 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. 7 Some people trust the power of chariots or horses, but we trust you, Lord God. 8 Others will stumble and fall, but we will be strong and stand firm. 9 Give the king victory, Lord , and answer our prayers.

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
except the one in the middle. He told us not to eat fruit from that tree or even to touch it. If we do, we will die."
Genesis 20:6
God spoke to Abimelech in another dream and said: I know you are innocent. That's why I kept you from sleeping with Sarah and doing anything wrong.
Genesis 20:7
Her husband is a prophet. Let her go back to him, and his prayers will save you from death. But if you don't return her, you and all your people will die.
Genesis 26:11
Then Abimelech warned his people that anyone who even touched Isaac or Rebekah would be put to death.
Genesis 31:7
and that he keeps cheating me by changing my wages time after time. But God has protected me.
Genesis 35:5
While Jacob and his family were traveling through Canaan, God terrified the people in the towns so much that no one dared bother them.
Genesis 39:9
No one in my master's house is more important than I am. The only thing he hasn't given me is you, and that's because you are his wife. I won't sin against God by doing such a terrible thing as this."
Exodus 34:24
I will force the nations out of your land and enlarge your borders. Then no one will try to take your property when you come to worship me these three times each year.
1 Samuel 25:26
but please take this gift of food that I've brought and share it with your followers. The Lord has kept you from taking revenge and from killing innocent people. But I hope your enemies and anyone else who wants to harm you will end up like Nabal. I swear this by the living Lord and by your life.
1 Samuel 25:34
If you hadn't come to meet me so quickly, every man and boy in Nabal's family and in his servants' families would have been killed by morning. I swear by the living Lord God of Israel who protected you that this is the truth.

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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