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The Day of Trouble

Psalms 20:2

In 11 translations

BSB
May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.
KJV
Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;thee help: Heb. thy helpstrengthen: Heb. support
WEB
send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
ASV
Send thee help from the sanctuary, And strengthen thee out of Zion;
LSV
He sends your help from the sanctuary, || And supports you from Zion,
YLT
He doth send thy help from the sanctuary, And from Zion doth support thee,
DBY
May he send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
DRC19:3
May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee out of Sion.
GNV
Send thee helpe from the Sanctuarie, and strengthen thee out of Zion.
JPS20:3
Send forth thy help from the sanctuary, and support thee out of Zion;
LXXE19:3
Send thee help from the sanctuary, and aid thee out of Sion.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC20:3
יִשְׁלַֽח־עֶזְרְךָ֥ מִקֹּ֑דֶשׁ וּ֝מִצִּיּ֗וֹן יִסְעָדֶֽךָּ׃KJV:Ps.20.2
LXX-Br19:3
Ἐξαποστείλαι σοι βοήθειαν ἐξ ἁγίου, καὶ ἐκ Σιὼν ἀντιλάβοιτό σου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Kings 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, then may You hear from…
  • 1 Kings 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.
  • Isaiah 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
  • Isaiah 14:32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
  • 2 Chronicles 20:8–9They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying, ‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name…
  • Psalms 3:4To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
  • 2 Samuel 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 Samuel 5:7Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).
  • Psalms 73:17until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
  • Isaiah 37:34–35He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 20:3 in some Bibles
  • 20:2 in most Bibles

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