Psalm 20:2

Translations

Modern

May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.

Traditional

Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

Literal

May He send help for you from the Holy Place, and from Zion may He support you.

Latin

Mittat tibi auxilium de sancto, et de Sion tueatur te.

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English

May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.

Notes

Psalms 20:1–5

The community prays for the king’s protection and victory.

Psalms 20:1–9

This royal prayer asks God to give victory to the king (Psalm 20:1–5). It then expresses confidence that God will bring rescue (20:6–8). The psalm ends with the people asking God to answer their prayer (20:9).

Psalms 20:1–24:10

This series of psalms shows a journey from confidence and commitment (Psalms 20–21), through anguish and abandonment (Psalm 22), and finally to comfort, insight, and hope (Psalms 23–24).

Theme notes and profiles

David Royal Psalms Zion

Related verses

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,
Isaiah 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.”
1 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.
2 Chronicles 20:8–9
They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,
Isaiah 12:6
Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
Psalm 3:4
To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
Psalm 73:17
…until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
2 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.
2 Samuel 5:7
Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
Isaiah 37:34–35
He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.

Places

Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions

Glossary

David Music Psalms, Book of

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Church: Sanctuary Church: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Holy of Holies was Called The: Sanctuary Intercession: Exemplified Symbols and Similitudes: Sanctuary Temple: Solomon's: Zion War: Strengthened by God In Warfare of Saints: Saints: Strengthened by God In

Psalm 20:2

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