Psalm 21

¹ Jehovah, in thy strength

the king shall joyful be;

and joy in thy salvation

how vehemently shall he?

² Thou of his heart to him

hast granted the desire:

and thou hast not withholden back,

what his lips did require. Selah.

³ For thou dost with blessings

of goodness prevent him:

thou on his head of finest gold

hast set a diadem.

⁴ Of thee he asked life,

to him thou gav’st it free,

ev’n length of days for evermore

unto eternity.

⁵ In thy salvation

his glory hath been great:

honour, and comely dignity

thou hast upon him set.

⁶ For thou him blessings sett’st

to perpetuity:

thou mak’st him with thy countenance

exceeding glad to be.

⁷ Because that in the Lord

the king doth trust, and he

through mercy of the highest one,

shall not removed be.

⁸ The Lord shall find out all

that are thine enemies:

thy right hand also shall find out

those that do thee despise.

⁹ Thou sett’st as fiery oven

them in times of thine ire:

the Lord will swallow them in’s wrath

and them consume with fire.

¹⁰ Thou wilt destroy the fruit,

that doth proceed of them,

out of the earth: and their seed from

among the sons of men.

¹¹ Because they evil have

intended against thee:

a wicked plot they have devis’d,

but shall not able be.

¹² For thou wilt as a back

them set; and thou wilt place

thine arrows ready on thy string,

full right against their face.