Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Thou are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David his servant from the hurtful sword.

New American Standard Bible

Who gives salvation to kings,
Who rescues David His servant from the evil sword.

King James Version

It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Holman Bible

the One who gives victory to kings,
who frees His servant David
from the deadly sword.

International Standard Version

to you who gives victory to kings, rescuing his servant David from cruel swords.

American Standard Version

Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings; Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Amplified


Who gives salvation to kings,
Who sets David His servant free from the evil sword.

Darby Translation

Who givest salvation unto kings; who rescuest David thy servant from the hurtful sword.

Julia Smith Translation

Giving salvation to kings: snatch in away David his servant from the evil sword.

King James 2000

It is he that gives salvation unto kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Lexham Expanded Bible

who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from [the] evil sword.

Modern King James verseion

It is You who gives salvation to kings; who delivers David His servant from the hurtful sword.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou that givest victory unto kings, and hast delivered David thy servant from the peril of the sword.

NET Bible

the one who delivers kings, and rescued David his servant from a deadly sword.

New Heart English Bible

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

The Emphasized Bible

Who giveth victory unto kings - Who snatcheth away David his servant, from the calamitous sword.

Webster

It is he that giveth salvation to kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

World English Bible

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Youngs Literal Translation

Who is giving deliverance to kings, Who is freeing David His servant from the sword of evil.

Verse Info

Context Readings

A King's Prayer

9 I will sing a new song to thee, O God. Upon a psaltery of ten strings I will sing praises to thee. 10 Thou are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David his servant from the hurtful sword. 11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Cross References

Psalm 18:50

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.

Psalm 140:7

O lord LORD, the strength of my salvation, thou have covered my head in the day of battle.

1 Samuel 17:45-46

Then David said to the Philistine, Thou come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin, but I come to thee in the name of LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou have defied.

2 Samuel 5:19-25

And David inquired of LORD, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will thou deliver them into my hand? And LORD said to David, Go up, for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

2 Samuel 8:6-14

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. And LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

2 Samuel 21:16-17

and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.

2 Kings 5:1

Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, [but he was] a leper.

Psalm 33:16-18

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

Isaiah 45:1-6

Thus says LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held to subdue nations before him. And I will loose the loins of kings to open the doors before him. And the gates shall not be shut.

Jeremiah 27:6-8

And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant. And the beasts of the field I have also given him to serve him.

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