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**To the chief Musician.** See App-64 .
**Title. A Psalm.** See App-65 .
**of** = pertaining or relating to.
**strength** = prevailing strength. Hebrew. *'araz,* as in [Psalms 21:13](../../../kjv/psalms/21/13) . Compare notes on [Psalms 20:2](../../../kjv/psalms/20/2) , [Psalms 20:6](../../../kjv/psalms/20/6) .
**LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .

**heart's desire.** Compare [Psalms 20:4](../../../kjv/psalms/20/4) ; [Psalms 37:4](../../../kjv/psalms/37/4) .
**Selah.** See App-66 . Here connecting the reason ([Psalms 21:3](../../../kjv/psalms/21/3) ) of the answer ([Psalms 21:2](../../../kjv/psalms/21/2) ) with the prayer of [Psalms 20:4](../../../kjv/psalms/20/4) ; which, by the Selah of [Psalms 20:3](../../../kjv/psalms/20/3) , had been connected with the reason given there: i.e. atonement.

**preventest** = comest to meet. Compare "settest" in [Psalms 21:3](../../../kjv/psalms/21/3) .
**crown.** See [Revelation 14:14](../../../kjv/revelation/14/14) , and compare [Matthew 8:20](../../../kjv/matthew/8/20) .

**life:** i.e. resurrection life. Compare [Isaiah 53:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/53/10) . [Hebrews 2:10-18](../../../kjv/hebrews/2/10-18) ; [Hebrews 5:7](../../../kjv/hebrews/5/7) .

**Honour, &c.** Compare [Revelation 5:13](../../../kjv/revelation/5/13) .

**blessed.** Compare [Revelation 5:13](../../../kjv/revelation/5/13) .

**trusteth = confldeth.** Hebrew. *batah.* App-69 .
**mercy** = lovingkindness, or grace.
**MOST HIGH.** Hebrew. *Elyon.*

**make them** = place them as [in] a furnace of fire.
**anger.** Hebrew face is put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), for the anger manifested by it.

**children** = sons.
**men.** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 .

**are not able to perform** = could not accomplish.

**strings** = bow-strings.

**To the chief Musician.** See App-64 .
**upon** = relating to.
**Aijeleth Shahar** = the Day-dawn: David's Coronation, 953BC. Looking forward to the Day-dawn of Messiah's Coronation, which is the subject of the [Psalms 21](../../../kjv/psalms/21) , not of [Psalms 22](../../../kjv/psalms/22) . Compare [2 Samuel 23:4](../../../kjv/2-samuel/23/4) ; see note on [2 Peter 1:19](../../../kjv/2-peter/1/19) and App-65 . Compare [Psalms 139:9](../../../kjv/psalms/139/9) .

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