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Psalms 21:13
13Get up, Lord, and show your strength! We will sing to praise you because you have great power.
Psalms 21:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
- New International Version (NIV)Be exalted in your strength, Lord; we will sing and praise your might.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Be exalted, O Lord, in Your own strength! We will sing and praise Your power.
Context of Psalms 21:13
11They decided to hurt you. They thought how they would do that. But they could not do anything bad against you. 12No! You shoot your arrows at them, so that they turn round and they run away! Get up, Lord, and show your strength! We will sing to praise you because you have great power.
Read all of Psalms 21Psalms 21:13 word by word
ר֣וּמָה יְהוָ֣ה בְּעֻזֶּ֑ךָ נָשִׁ֥ירָה וּֽ֝נְזַמְּרָה גְּבוּרָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 21:13
- Psalms 18:46The Lord is alive! He is my strong Rock! Everyone should praise him! He rules as king! He is the God who saves me.
- Psalms 46:10He says, ‘Be still and quiet! Understand that I am God. I rule as king over the nations. All the world will say that I am great.’
- Psalms 57:5God, show how great you are, high above the sky! Let everybody on the earth see your glory!
- Psalms 72:18Praise the Lord, Israel's God, as he deserves. Only he does such wonderful things.
- Psalms 113:5There is nobody like the Lord our God. He sits on his throne high above us.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11Lord, you are great, powerful and beautiful! You rule as king over everything in heaven and on earth. Yes, Lord, everything belongs in your kingdom!
- Job 9:19If I tried to fight God, he is much stronger than I am. And if I ask for justice, who can bring God to court?
- Matthew 6:10We want the day when you rule everyone to come soon. We want everyone to obey you on earth, like everyone in heaven obeys you.
- Matthew 6:13Do not let us agree to do wrong things. Keep us safe from Satan.” ’
- Revelation 11:17They said: ‘We thank you, Lord God, because you have all authority! You are alive now and you have always been alive. You have great power and now you have begun to rule the whole world!
- Psalms 58:10When God punishes those wicked people, righteous people will be very happy. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked people!
- Revelation 15:3Now they sang the song of God's servant, Moses, and the Lamb's song. They sang this: ‘Lord God with all power, what you do is great and wonderful! Everything that you do is completely fair and honest. You are King of all nations of the world.
- Revelation 16:5Then I heard the voice of the angel who had authority over the waters. He said to God, ‘Holy One, you are alive now and you always have been alive. You are right in everything that you decide. Now you have judged these people.
- Revelation 18:20Yes, you who live in heaven, be happy! Be happy because God has punished Babylon! God's people and his apostles and his prophets, be happy! God has punished the city because of what she did to you.
- Revelation 19:1After these things, I heard a sound like the voices of a great crowd of people in heaven. They were shouting, ‘Praise the Lord our God! He has saved us! He is very powerful! We say that he is great!
Commentaries on Psalms 21:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Be thou exalted - Exalt thyself. O Lord - thy creatures cannot exalt thee. Lift thyself up, and discomfit thy foes by thine own strength! Thou canst give a victory to thy people over the most formidable enemies, though they strike not one blow in their own defense. God's right hand has often given the victory to his followers, while they stood still to see the salvation of God. How little can the strength of man avail when the Lord raiseth up himself to…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength - This is the concluding part of the psalm (see the introduction), expressing a desire that God “might” be exalted over all his foes; or that his own strength might he so manifestly put forth that he would be exalted as he ought to be. This is the ultimate and chief desire of all holy created beings, that God might be exalted in the estimation of the universe above all other beings - or that he might so triumph…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-13Verses 7-13 The psalmist teaches to look forward with faith, and hope, and prayer upon what God would further do. The success with which God blessed David, was a type of the total overthrow of all Christ's enemies. Those who might have had Christ to rule and save them, but rejected him and fought against him, shall find the remembrance of it a worm that dies not. God makes sinners willing by his grace, receives them to his favour, and delivers them from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13Be exalted (compare Psalm 57:5, 11; 108:5) expresses communal praise and joy in God’s greatness and power.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. The glory of all is ascribable to God alone.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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