May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.
Parallel translations
- WEB send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
- KJV Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
- NKJV May He send you help from the sanctuary, And strengthen you out of Zion;
- NASB May He send you help from the sanctuary, And support you from Zion!
- NLT May he send you help from his sanctuary and strengthen you from Jerusalem.
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Quick answer
They ask God to send the king help from the sanctuary and support from Zion. Aid is sought from God's dwelling place among his people.
Overview
The 'sanctuary' and 'Zion' mark the place of God's presence and worship, from which his help flows. The people trust that the God who dwells with Israel will strengthen their king. This grounds confidence not in armies but in the God who meets his people at the place of worship, fulfilled now in Christ, God's true dwelling among us.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- 1 Kgs 8:44–45When 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,
- 2 Chr 20:8–9They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,
- Isa 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
- 1 Kgs 6:16He 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.
- Isa 14:32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
- Ps 3:4To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
- Ps 73:17until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
- 2 Sam 6:17So 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 Sam 5:7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
- Isa 37:34–35He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.
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