Psalms 20:9

Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!

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WEBBE

Save, LORD! Let the King answer us when we call!

BSB

O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.

KJV

Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

ASV

Save, Jehovah: Let the King answer us when we call.

BBE

Come to our help, Lord: let the king give ear to our cry.

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The early church

"O Lord, save the King:" that He, who in His Passion hath shown us an example of conflict, should also offer up our sacrifices, the Priest raised from the dead, and established in heaven. "And hear us in the day when we shall call on Thee" (ver. 9). And as He now offereth for us, "hear us in the day when we shall call on Thee."
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Spurgeon · Verse 9

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."

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.