Parallel Chapters After the Battle
(Proverbs 21:1-31) | 1For the director of music. A psalm of David. The king rejoices in your strength, LORD. How great is his joy in the victories you give! | 1O LORD, in your strength the king rejoices, and in your salvation how greatly he exults! | 1For the choir director. A Psalm of David. O LORD, in Your strength the king will be glad, And in Your salvation how greatly he will rejoice! | 1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! | 1For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. LORD, the king finds joy in Your strength. How greatly he rejoices in Your victory! |
| 2You have granted him his heart's desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. | 2You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah | 2You have given him his heart's desire, And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. | 2Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah. | 2You have given him his heart's desire and have not denied the request of his lips. Selah |
| 3You came to greet him with rich blessings and placed a crown of pure gold on his head. | 3For you meet him with rich blessings; you set a crown of fine gold upon his head. | 3For You meet him with the blessings of good things; You set a crown of fine gold on his head. | 3For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head. | 3For You meet him with rich blessings; You place a crown of pure gold on his head. |
| 4He asked you for life, and you gave it to him-- length of days, for ever and ever. | 4He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever. | 4He asked life of You, You gave it to him, Length of days forever and ever. | 4He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever. | 4He asked You for life, and You gave it to him-- length of days forever and ever. |
| 5Through the victories you gave, his glory is great; you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty. | 5His glory is great through your salvation; splendor and majesty you bestow on him. | 5His glory is great through Your salvation, Splendor and majesty You place upon him. | 5His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him. | 5His glory is great through Your victory; You confer majesty and splendor on him. |
| 6Surely you have granted him unending blessings and made him glad with the joy of your presence. | 6For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence. | 6For You make him most blessed forever; You make him joyful with gladness in Your presence. | 6For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance. | 6You give him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence. |
| 7For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing love of the Most High he will not be shaken. | 7For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved. | 7For the king trusts in the LORD, And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he will not be shaken. | 7For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. | 7For the king relies on the LORD; through the faithful love of the Most High he is not shaken. |
| 8Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies; your right hand will seize your foes. | 8Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you. | 8Your hand will find out all your enemies; Your right hand will find out those who hate you. | 8Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. | 8Your hand will capture all your enemies; your right hand will seize those who hate you. |
| 9When you appear for battle, you will burn them up as in a blazing furnace. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and his fire will consume them. | 9You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them. | 9You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger; The LORD will swallow them up in His wrath, And fire will devour them. | 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. | 9You will make them burn like a fiery furnace when you appear; the LORD will engulf them in His wrath, and fire will devour them. |
| 10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from mankind. | 10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man. | 10Their offspring You will destroy from the earth, And their descendants from among the sons of men. | 10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. | 10You will wipe their descendants from the earth and their offspring from the human race. |
| 11Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed. | 11Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed. | 11Though they intended evil against You And devised a plot, They will not succeed. | 11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. | 11Though they intend to harm you and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail. |
| 12You will make them turn their backs when you aim at them with drawn bow. | 12For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows. | 12For You will make them turn their back; You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces. | 12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. | 12Instead, you will put them to flight when you aim your bow at their faces. |
| 13Be exalted in your strength, LORD; we will sing and praise your might. | 13Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power. | 13Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; We will sing and praise Your power. | 13Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. | 13Be exalted, LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your might. |
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