Psalms 144:10
8 whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
9 I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
11 Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
12 Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.
- KJV
- It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
- WEB
- You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
- ASV
- Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings; Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
- DARBY
- Who givest salvation unto kings; who rescuest David thy servant from the hurtful sword.
- BLB
- the One giving salvation to kings, the One releasing David His servant from the sword of evil.
- ÅB
- du som gir kongene frelse, som redder David, din tjener, fra det onde sverd.
- OTB
- Han som gir frelse til konger,
Han som redder Sin tjener David fra det skadelige sverd. - B1930
- du som gir kongene frelse, som redder David, din tjener, fra det onde sverd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 18:50
Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
Read in contextPsalms 140:7
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.
Read in contextPsalms 33:16–18
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
Read in context2 Samuel 5:19–25
So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go,” replied the LORD, “for I will surely deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
Read in context2 Samuel 21:16–17
Then Ishbi-benob, a descendant of Rapha, whose bronze spear weighed three hundred shekels and who was bearing a new sword, resolved to kill David.
Read in context2 Samuel 8:6–14
Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
Read in context1 Samuel 17:45–46
But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
Read in contextIsaiah 45:1–6
This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
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