Psalms 20:2
1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.
3 May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah
4 May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.
- KJV
- Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
- WEB
- send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
- ASV
- Send thee help from the sanctuary, And strengthen thee out of Zion;
- DARBY
- May he send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
- BLB
- May He send help for you from the Holy Place, and from Zion may He support you.
- ÅB
- Måtte han sende deg hjelp fra helligdommen
og støtte deg fra Sion! - OTB
- Måtte Han sende deg hjelp fra helligdommen,
Og støtte deg fra Sion! - B1930
- Han sende dig hjelp fra helligdommen og støtte dig fra Sion!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Kings 8:44–45
When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
Read in contextIsaiah 14:32
What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
Read in contextIsaiah 12:6
Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
Read in context1 Kings 6:16
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
Read in context2 Chronicles 20:8–9
They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,
Read in contextPsalms 3:4
To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
Read in context2 Samuel 6:17
So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
Read in context2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
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