Psalm 20:1
New International Version
For the director of music. A psalm of David. May the LORD answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

New Living Translation
In times of trouble, may the LORD answer your cry. May the name of the God of Jacob keep you safe from all harm.

English Standard Version
May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!

Berean Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

King James Bible
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

New King James Version
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; May the name of the God of Jacob defend you;

New American Standard Bible
For the music director. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you on a day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!

NASB 1995
For the choir director. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!

NASB 1977
May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!

Legacy Standard Bible
For the choir director. A Psalm of David. May Yahweh answer you in the day of distress! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!

Amplified Bible
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you (David) in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high [and defend you in battle]!

Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director. A psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in a day of trouble; may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. May Yahweh answer you in a day of trouble; may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.

American Standard Version
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Jehovah answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH will answer you in a day of trouble, and The Name of the God of Jacob will help you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the end, a Psalm of David. The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

Contemporary English Version
I pray that the LORD will listen when you are in trouble, and that the God of Jacob will keep you safe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the end. A psalm for David. May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.

English Revised Version
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The LORD answer thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[For the choir director; a psalm by David.] The LORD will answer you in times of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob will protect you.

Good News Translation
May the LORD answer you when you are in trouble! May the God of Jacob protect you!

International Standard Version
May the LORD answer you in the day of distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For the Leader. A Psalm of David. The LORD answer thee in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set thee up on high;

Literal Standard Version
TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH answers you, | In a day of adversity, | The Name of the God of Jacob sets you on high,

Majority Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

New American Bible
For the leader. A psalm of David. [2] The LORD answer you in time of distress; the name of the God of Jacob defend you!

NET Bible
For the music director; a psalm of David. May the LORD answer you when you are in trouble; may the God of Jacob make you secure!

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD answer you in the day of trouble! The name of the God of Jacob protect you!

New Heart English Bible
[For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.] May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high.

Webster's Bible Translation
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

World English Bible
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

Young's Literal Translation
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Jehovah doth answer thee, In a day of adversity, The name of the God of Jacob doth set thee on high,

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Context
The Day of Trouble
1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. 2May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.…

Cross References
Psalm 46:7
The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

Psalm 46:11
The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

Psalm 50:15
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me."

Psalm 54:1
Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might!

Psalm 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise against me.

Psalm 69:29
But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

Psalm 91:14
"Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;

A.

Psalm 41:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Psalm 46:1
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Psalm 50:5
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

name

Psalm 9:10
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

Psalm 83:18
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

Exodus 34:5-7
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD…

God

Psalm 46:7,11
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah…

Genesis 32:27-29
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob…

Genesis 48:15,16
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, …

defend [heb.

Psalm 18:2
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Psalm 91:14
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

Psalm 114:2
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

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Psalm 20
1. The church blesses the King in his exploits
7. and expresses her confidence in God's helpfulness














(1) Day of trouble . . . God of Jacob.--This certainly recalls the patriarch's words (Genesis 35:3), "I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress." The "name" alone of the God of Jacob was a safeguard to the people, called after their great forefather "Israel. So even under the shadow of the greatness of human monarchs and heroes whole peoples have often felt secure and strong, using no other weapon but his name.

Defend thee.--Better, set thee up on high (comp. Psalm 69:29; Psalm 91:14) as in a fortress, out of the reach of foes.

Verse 1. - The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble. The people intercede for their king in a "clay of trouble" or "distress," when danger impends, and he is about to affront it. They are made to ask, first of all, that God will hear the king's prayers, which are no doubt being silently offered while they pray aloud. The Name of the God of Jacob defend thee. (On the force of the expression, "the Name of God," see the comment upon Psalm 7:17.) "Jacob's God" - a favourite expression with David - is the God who made him the promise, "I will be with thee, and I will keep thee in all places whither thou goest" (Genesis 28:15). "Defend thee" is scarcely a correct rendering. Translate, exalt thee.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For the choirmaster.
לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ (lam·naṣ·ṣê·aḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5329: To glitter from afar, to be eminent, to be permanent

A Psalm
מִזְמ֥וֹר (miz·mō·wr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4210: Instrumental music, a poem set to notes

of David.
לְדָוִֽד׃ (lə·ḏā·wiḏ)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

May the LORD
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

answer you
יַֽעַנְךָ֣ (ya·‘an·ḵā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

in the day
בְּי֣וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of trouble;
צָרָ֑ה (ṣā·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6869: Tightness, a female rival

may the name
שֵׁ֤ם ׀ (šêm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8034: A name

of the God
אֱלֹהֵ֬י (’ĕ·lō·hê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

of Jacob
יַעֲקֹֽב׃ (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3290: Jacob -- a son of Isaac, also his desc

protect you.
יְ֝שַׂגֶּבְךָ֗ (yə·śag·geḇ·ḵā)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7682: To be, lofty, inaccessible, safe, strong


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