--- title: "Psalms 21 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 21 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 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 wi" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/psalms/21" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/21)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/21)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/21) Audio 1 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. [Psalms 20](/study/psalms/20) [Psalms 22](/study/psalms/22) ## Commentary To verse 1 In the *title* of this Psalm there is nothing particularly worthy of remark. The *occasion* of it is variously understood. Some think it was composed to celebrate the victory obtained over *Sennacherib*; others, that it was made on the recovery of *Hezekiah*, and the grant of *fifteen* years of longer life; see [Psalms 21:4](/kjv/psalms/21/4). Others and they with most appearance of propriety consider it a song of rejoicing composed by David for his victory over the *Ammonites*, which ended in the capture of the royal city of *Rabbah*, the crown of whose king David put on his own head, see [Psalms 21:3](/kjv/psalms/21/3), and to procure which victory David offered the prayers and sacrifices mentioned in the preceding Psalm. Lastly, many think that it is to be wholly referred to the *victories of the* *Messiah*; and it must be owned that there are several expressions in it which apply better to our Lord than to David, or to any other person; and to him the *Targum* applies it, as does likewise my old *Anglo-Scottish Psalter* in paraphrasing the text. Verse [Psalms 21:1](/kjv/psalms/21/1). ***The king shall joy*** — מלך משיחא *melech Meshicha*, "the King Messiah." - *Targum*. What a difference between ancient and modern heroes! The former acknowledged all to be of God, because they took care to have their quarrel *rightly founded*; the latter sing a *Te Deum*, pro forma, because they well know that their battle is *not* of the Lord. Their own vicious conduct sufficiently proves that they looked no higher than the arm of human strength. 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