Victory in Battle!

Psalm 21 commentary from Halley's Bible Handbook:

Psalm 20. A Song of Trust
     Seems like a Battle Hymn, sung in setting up their banners, with Prayer for Victory, as David entered battle, Trusting, not in chariots and horses (7), but in the Lord.


Psalm 20

 ¹The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
 ²Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
 ³Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
 ⁴Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
 ⁵We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
 ⁶Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
 ⁷Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
 ⁸They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
 ⁹Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

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Revelation 5:9-10

   9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
 ¹⁰And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

(Keep this in mind for vs.1-7 in Psalm 21. What great promises to claim!)

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Psalm 21 commentary from Halley's Bible Handbook:

Psalm 21. Thanks for Victory

     After the Battle, for which they had Prayed in Psalm 20 before the battle. It seems to refer to David, but it seems also to have a Messianic hint in its reference to the Eternal Feature of the King's Reign (4).

Psalm 21

 ¹The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
 ²Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
 ³For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
 ⁴He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
 ⁵His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
 ⁶For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
 ⁷For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
 ⁸Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
 ⁹Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
 ¹⁰Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
 ¹¹For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
 ¹²Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
 ¹³Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.