Psalms 21:3
For You welcomed him with rich blessings; You placed on his head a crown of pure gold.
BSB
ASV
For thou meetest him with the blessings of goodness: Thou settest a crown of fine gold on his head.
KJV
For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
BRIEF COMMENTARY ON PSALM 21 (420)
The crown of the Lord is the church gathered from the various nations, about which Paul in the person of the believers says, "My joy and my crown."
"For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness." The word prevent formerly signified to precede or go before, and assuredly Jehovah preceded his Son with blessings. Before he died saints were saved by the anticipated merit of his death, before he came believers saw his day and were glad, and he himself had his delights with the sons of men. The Father is so willing to give blessings through his Son, that instead of his being constrained to bestow his grace, he outstrips the Mediatorial march of mercy.
1834–1892
OUR text is one of many instances of the way in which words change their meanings. The word, "prevent," as we now use it, has a very different meaning from that which it had when our translators used it. It now signifies to get before one, to stop up his path, to prevent his going a certain way, just as the angel "prevented" Balaam, standing with his sword drawn in his hand that he might not pass that way.
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 31:19How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
leads to
Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Through
Ephesians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
leads to
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,