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His glory is great through Your salvation, Splendor and majesty You place upon him.
Psalms 21:5 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.
  • KJV His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
  • BSB Great is his glory in Your salvation; You bestow on him splendor and majesty.
  • NKJV His glory is great in Your salvation; Honor and majesty You have placed upon him.
  • NLT Your victory brings him great honor, and you have clothed him with splendor and majesty.

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Quick answer

The king's glory is great because of God's salvation, and God lays honor and majesty on him. His exaltation comes from the Lord.

Overview

The king's renown flows from the deliverance God provided; God himself bestows splendor and majesty upon him. This is glory received, not self-generated. The honor and majesty laid on God's king ultimately describe the exalted Christ, on whom the Father has bestowed glory and majesty above every name (Phil 2:9-11).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • 1 Pet 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
  • Rev 5:8–13Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
  • Heb 8:1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
  • John 17:22The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
  • Eph 1:20–22which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
  • 2 Sam 7:8–9Now therefore tell my servant David this, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel.
  • Ps 110:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
  • Isa 63:1Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
  • John 17:1Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
  • Ps 96:6Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
  • Ps 3:3But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
  • 1 Chr 17:11–15It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
  • John 17:5Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
  • 1 Chr 17:27Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”
  • Ps 8:5For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.
  • Isa 49:5–7Now Yahweh says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.
  • 2 Sam 7:19This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!
  • Matt 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
  • Ps 62:7With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
  • Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
  • John 13:31–32When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 21:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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