Psalms 20:9
O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.
BSB
ASV
Save, Jehovah: Let the King answer us when we call.
KJV
Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.
"O Lord." The conclusion of this entire Psalm is set forth: which indeed seems to tend to two things. For it petitions either for the true Christ or for Christ figuratively. As to the first he says, "O Lord, save the king," that is, Christ. …
Or it may refer to the Messiah, that King, that King of kings; let him hear us when we call; let him come to us according to the promise, in the time appointed; let him, as the great Master of requests, receive all our petitions and present them to the Father.
The Psalm is here recapitulated. That Jesus might himself be delivered, and might then, as our King, hear us, is the two-fold desire of the Psalm. The first request is granted, and the second is sure to all the seed; and therefore we may close the Psalm with the hearty shout, "God save the King." "God save King Jesus, and may he soon come to reign."
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 74:12Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
leads to
For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
Through
Psalms 5:2Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.
leads to
O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.
To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.
Through
Psalms 44:4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
leads to
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.
Through
Matthew 21:15But the chief priests and scribes were indignant when they saw the wonders He performed and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David!”
leads to
The crowds that went ahead of Him and those that followed were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest!”
