1 ¶ The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy saving health how greatly shall he rejoice!

2 T hou hast given him his heart’s desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

3 F or thou givest him beforehand the blessings of goodness; thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

4 H e asked life of thee, and thou didst give him length of days for ever and ever.

5 H is glory is great in thy saving health; honour and beauty hast thou laid upon him.

6 F or thou hast made him most blessed for ever; thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

7 ¶ For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

8 T hine hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

9 T hou 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.

10 T heir fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth and their seed from among the children of men.

11 F or they intended evil against thee; they imagined a wicked device, but they did not prevail.

12 T herefore shalt thou separate them; thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

13 B e thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy valour.