Psalm 144:10
New International Version
to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword

New Living Translation
For you grant victory to kings! You rescued your servant David from the fatal sword.

English Standard Version
who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

Berean Standard Bible
to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

King James Bible
It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

New King James Version
The One who gives salvation to kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword.

New American Standard Bible
Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues His servant David from the evil sword.

NASB 1995
Who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David His servant from the evil sword.

NASB 1977
Who dost give salvation to kings; Who dost rescue David His servant from the evil sword.

Legacy Standard Bible
Who gives salvation to kings, Who sets David His servant free from the evil sword.

Amplified Bible
Who gives salvation to kings, Who sets David His servant free from the evil sword.

Christian Standard Bible
the one who gives victory to kings, who frees his servant David from the deadly sword.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
the One who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

American Standard Version
Thou art he that giveth salvation unto kings; Who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For he gave salvation to the King and he delivered David his Servant from the sword of evil.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Even to him who gives salvation to kings: who redeems his servant David from the hurtful sword.

Contemporary English Version
By your power, kings win wars, and your servant David is saved from deadly swords.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who givest salvation to kings: who hast redeemed thy servant David from the malicious sword:

English Revised Version
It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You are the one who gives victory to kings. You are the one who snatches your servant David away from a deadly sword.

Good News Translation
You give victory to kings and rescue your servant David.

International Standard Version
to you who gives victory to kings, rescuing his servant David from cruel swords.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Who givest salvation unto kings, Who rescuest David Thy servant from the hurtful sword.

Literal Standard Version
Who is giving deliverance to kings, | Who is freeing His servant David from the sword of evil.

Majority Standard Bible
to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

New American Bible
You give victory to kings; you delivered David your servant. From the menacing sword

NET Bible
the one who delivers kings, and rescued David his servant from a deadly sword.

New Revised Standard Version
the one who gives victory to kings, who rescues his servant David.

New Heart English Bible
You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Webster's Bible Translation
It is he that giveth salvation to kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

World English Bible
You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Young's Literal Translation
Who is giving deliverance to kings, Who is freeing David His servant from the sword of evil.

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Context
Blessed Be the LORD, My Rock
9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You— 10to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword. 11Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.…

Cross References
Hebrews 11:34
quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

2 Samuel 18:7
There the people of Israel were defeated by David's servants, and the slaughter was great that day--twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 22:51
Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever."

Job 5:20
In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

Psalm 18:50
Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

Psalm 140:7
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.


Treasury of Scripture

It is he that gives salvation to kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.

that giveth

Psalm 18:50
Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

Psalm 33:16-18
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength…

2 Samuel 5:19-25
And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand…

salvation.

Isaiah 45:1-6
Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; …

Jeremiah 27:6-8
And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him…

who delivereth

Psalm 140:7
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

1 Samuel 17:45,46
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied…

2 Samuel 21:16,17
And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David…

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Psalm 144
1. David blesses God for his mercy both to him and to man
5. He prays that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies
9. He promises to praise God
11. He prays for the happy state of the kingdom














(10) David his servant.--See Psalm 18:50.

Verse 10. - It is he that giveth salvation unto kings. There has always been a belief, especially in the East, that "a divinity doth hedge a king." Saul himself was regarded by David as sacrosanct, and to kill him, even at his own request, was a sacrilege (2 Samuel 1:14-16). Who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword. David speaks of himself by name, not only here, but in Psalm 18:50; 2 Samuel 7:26.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
to the One who gives
הַנּוֹתֵ֥ן (han·nō·w·ṯên)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

victory
תְּשׁוּעָ֗ה (tə·šū·‘āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8668: Deliverance, salvation

to kings,
לַמְּלָ֫כִ֥ים (lam·mə·lā·ḵîm)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4428: A king

who frees
הַ֭פּוֹצֶה (hap·pō·w·ṣeh)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6475: To rend, open

His servant
עַבְדּ֗וֹ (‘aḇ·dōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

David
דָּוִ֥ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

from the deadly
רָעָֽה׃ (rā·‘āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

sword.
מֵחֶ֥רֶב (mê·ḥe·reḇ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword


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