Psalm 20:9
New International Version
LORD, give victory to the king! Answer us when we call!

New Living Translation
Give victory to our king, O LORD! Answer our cry for help.

English Standard Version
O LORD, save the king! May he answer us when we call.

Berean Standard Bible
O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.

King James Bible
Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

New King James Version
Save, LORD! May the King answer us when we call.

New American Standard Bible
Save, LORD; May the King answer us on the day we call.

NASB 1995
Save, O LORD; May the King answer us in the day we call.

NASB 1977
Save, O LORD; May the King answer us in the day we call.

Legacy Standard Bible
Save, O Yahweh; May the King answer us in the day we call.

Amplified Bible
O LORD, save [the king]; May the King answer us in the day we call.

Christian Standard Bible
LORD, give victory to the king! May he answer us on the day that we call.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
LORD, give victory to the king! May He answer us on the day that we call.

American Standard Version
Save, Jehovah: Let the King answer us when we call.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH will save us and our King will answer us in the day that we call him.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon thee.

Contemporary English Version
Give the king victory, LORD, and answer our prayers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They are bound, and have fallen; but we are risen, and are set upright. O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.

English Revised Version
Save, LORD: let the King answer us when we call.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Give victory to the king, O LORD. Answer us when we call.

Good News Translation
Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call.

International Standard Version
Deliver us, LORD! Answer us, our King, on the day we cry out!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Save, LORD; Let the King answer us in the day that we call.

Literal Standard Version
O YHWH, save the king, | He answers us in the day we call!

Majority Standard Bible
O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.

New American Bible
LORD, grant victory to the king; answer when we call upon you.

NET Bible
The LORD will deliver the king; he will answer us when we call to him for help!

New Revised Standard Version
Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call.

New Heart English Bible
Save, LORD. Let the King answer us when we call.

Webster's Bible Translation
Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

World English Bible
Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!

Young's Literal Translation
O Jehovah, save the king, He doth answer us in the day we call!

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Context
The Day of Trouble
8They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm. 9O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.

Cross References
Psalm 3:7
Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

Psalm 17:6
I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.


Treasury of Scripture

Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

Save.

Psalm 118:25,26
Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity…

Matthew 21:9,15
And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest…

let

Psalm 2:6-10
Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion…

Psalm 5:2
Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

Psalm 24:7
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

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(9) Save Lord . . .--The Authorised Version follows the accentuation of the Masoretic text, but spoils the rhythm, and interrupts the sense. The LXX. and Vulg., followed by all modern commentators, dividing the verse differently render, "Jehovah, save the king," whence our National Anthem. Jehovah thus becomes the subject of the verb hear in the last clause. "May He hear us in the day of our calling." The change from second to third person is characteristic of the Hebrew manner of conquering emotion, and allowing the close of a poem to die away in calm and subdued language. (Comp. Psalm 110:7.)

Verse 9. - Save, Lord! This punctuation is adopted by Delitzsch, Kay, Professor Alexander, Hengstenberg, and our Revisers; but is opposed by Rosenmuller, Bishop Horsley, Ewald, Hupfeld, Cheyne, and the 'Speaker's Commentary.' It has the Hebrew Masoretie text in its favour, the Septuagint and Vulgate against it. Authorities are thus nearly equally balanced on the point; and we are at liberty to translate either, "Save, Lord: may the King hear us when we call!" or, "O Lord save the king: maybe hear us when we call (upon him)!" On the whole, perhaps, the former is preferable (see the arguments of Professor Alexander, 'Commentary on the Psalms,' p. 94).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
O LORD,
יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

deliver
הוֹשִׁ֑יעָה (hō·wō·šî·‘āh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3467: To be open, wide, free, to be safe, to free, succor

the king.
הַ֝מֶּ֗לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

Answer us
יַעֲנֵ֥נוּ (ya·‘ă·nê·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common plural
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

on the day
בְיוֹם־ (ḇə·yō·wm-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

we call.
קָרְאֵֽנוּ׃ (qā·rə·’ê·nū)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common plural
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read


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