Psalms 21 cross-references
Psalms 21 has 13 verses, which point to 188 other passages and are cited by 197. Below is the King James text of each verse with its strongest cross-references, ranked by OpenBible.info reader votes.
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Words characteristic of Psalms 21 in the original text, with the number of verses using each. Select one for a full word study.
- שִׁית shit “to set” 4
- בַּל bal “not” 3
- עַד ad “perpetuity” 2
- בְּרָכָה berakhah “blessing” 2
- יְשׁוּעָה yeshuah “salvation” 2
- עֹז oz “strength” 2
People in Psalms 21
- David 1
Psalms 21:1
[To 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!
Points to (14)
- Hebrews 12:2 — Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the… 15 votes
- Matthew 2:2 — Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to… 14 votes
- Psalms 62:7 — In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 14 votes
- Psalms 28:7 — The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly… 14 votes
- Psalms 59:16–17 — But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my… 13 votes
- Psalms 2:6 — Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 12 votes
Pointed to from (20)
- Psalms 37:4 — Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 131 votes
- Psalms 28:7 — The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly… 14 votes
- Psalms 16:6 — The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. 12 votes
- Psalms 51:12 — Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. 10 votes
Psalms 21:2
Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
Points to (6)
- Psalms 37:4 — Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 12 votes
- Psalms 20:4–5 — Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. 8 votes
- Psalms 2:8–9 — Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for… 5 votes
- Hebrews 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to… 3 votes
- Isaiah 49:6–12 — And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to… 3 votes
- Psalms 92:11 — Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise… 2 votes
Pointed to from (4)
- Psalms 20:4 — Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. 23 votes
- Proverbs 10:24 — The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted. 6 votes
- Proverbs 30:7 — Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die: 4 votes
- Psalms 95:4 — In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. 2 votes
Psalms 21:3
For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
Points to (15)
- 2 Samuel 12:30 — And he took their king’s crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious… 9 votes
- Ephesians 1:3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in… 7 votes
- Psalms 59:10 — The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. 5 votes
- Psalms 31:19 — Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for… 5 votes
- 1 Chronicles 20:2 — And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there… 5 votes
- Hebrews 2:9 — But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory… 4 votes
Pointed to from (13)
- Psalms 59:10 — The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. 9 votes
- Psalms 103:4 — Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 8 votes
- Zechariah 6:11 — Then take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech, the… 6 votes
- Psalms 8:5 — For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 votes
Psalms 21:4
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Points to (11)
- Psalms 91:16 — With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. 14 votes
- Revelation 1:18 — I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and… 13 votes
- Psalms 119:77 — Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 10 votes
- Psalms 133:3 — As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded… 9 votes
- Psalms 61:5–6 — For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. 8 votes
- Psalms 119:175 — Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me. 7 votes
Pointed to from (18)
- Psalms 16:11 — Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures… 35 votes
- 1 Chronicles 4:10 — And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast,… 30 votes
- Psalms 91:16 — With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. 25 votes
- Psalms 23:6 — Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD… 24 votes
Psalms 21:5
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.
Points to (21)
- 1 Peter 3:22 — Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made… 5 votes
- Revelation 5:8–13 — And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having… 4 votes
- Hebrews 8:1 — Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right… 4 votes
- Ephesians 1:20–22 — Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the… 4 votes
- John 17:22 — And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 3 votes
- John 17:5 — And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world… 2 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Psalms 138:5 — Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD. 8 votes
- Zechariah 6:13 — Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his… 4 votes
- Hebrews 8:1 — Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right… 3 votes
- Psalms 45:3 — Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. 3 votes
Psalms 21:6
For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
Points to (15)
- Acts 2:28 — Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 17 votes
- Psalms 45:7 — Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of… 14 votes
- Psalms 16:11 — Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures… 10 votes
- Galatians 3:9 — So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 9 votes
- Acts 3:26 — Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you… 7 votes
- Ephesians 1:3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in… 6 votes
Pointed to from (13)
- Psalms 45:7 — Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of… 27 votes
- Psalms 45:2 — Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for… 13 votes
- Jude 1:24 — Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his… 11 votes
- Acts 2:28 — Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 8 votes
Psalms 21:7
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Points to (15)
- Psalms 16:8 — I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. 9 votes
- Psalms 91:2 — I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 7 votes
- Daniel 7:14 — And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should… 5 votes
- Psalms 26:1 — [A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD;… 5 votes
- Psalms 20:7–8 — Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 5 votes
- Psalms 18:2 — The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my… 5 votes
Pointed to from (7)
- Psalms 16:5 — The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. 6 votes
- 1 Samuel 2:10 — The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD… 6 votes
- Psalms 26:1 — [A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD;… 5 votes
- Acts 2:25 — For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that… 4 votes
Psalms 21:8
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
Points to (15)
- 1 Corinthians 15:25 — For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 6 votes
- Luke 19:27 — But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. 6 votes
- Psalms 110:1–2 — [A Psalm of David.] The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy… 6 votes
- Revelation 19:15 — And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them… 5 votes
- Hebrews 10:28–29 — He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: 5 votes
- Psalms 72:9 — They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. 5 votes
Pointed to from (45)
- Ezra 8:22 — For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the… 32 votes
- Luke 19:27 — But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. 10 votes
- Psalms 68:1 — [To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.] Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also… 6 votes
- James 4:4 — Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever… 5 votes
Psalms 21:9
Thou 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.
Points to (26)
- Malachi 4:1 — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,… 12 votes
- 2 Thessalonians 1:8 — In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus… 8 votes
- Psalms 50:3 — Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very… 8 votes
- Psalms 18:8 — There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. 8 votes
- Nahum 1:6 — Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured… 7 votes
- Lamentations 2:2 — The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his… 7 votes
Pointed to from (21)
- Psalms 140:10 — Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. 7 votes
- Psalms 2:5 — Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. 7 votes
- Luke 3:17 — Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner;… 6 votes
- Isaiah 66:15 — For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with… 6 votes
Psalms 21:10
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
Points to (7)
- Psalms 37:28 — For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the… 6 votes
- 1 Kings 13:34 — And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face… 5 votes
- Isaiah 14:20 — Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the… 4 votes
- Psalms 109:13 — Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 4 votes
- Job 20:28 — The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 4 votes
- Malachi 4:1 — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,… 3 votes
Pointed to from (6)
- Psalms 37:28 — For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the… 7 votes
- Isaiah 14:20 — Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the… 6 votes
- Isaiah 10:12 — Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on… 2 votes
- Psalms 109:13 — Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 2 votes
Psalms 21:11
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Points to (17)
- Psalms 10:2 — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 29 votes
- Psalms 2:1 — Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 15 votes
- Jeremiah 11:18–19 — And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know then thou shewedst me their doings. 12 votes
- Psalms 31:13 — For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me,… 12 votes
- Isaiah 7:6–7 — Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst… 10 votes
- Isaiah 8:9–10 — Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries:… 9 votes
Pointed to from (15)
- Psalms 33:10 — The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 273 votes
- Job 5:12 — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 54 votes
- Proverbs 19:21 — There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand. 26 votes
- Nahum 1:9 — What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 23 votes
Psalms 21:12
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Points to (10)
- Psalms 7:12–13 — If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 8 votes
- Psalms 18:40 — Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. 6 votes
- Lamentations 3:12 — He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 4 votes
- Psalms 64:7 — But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 4 votes
- Psalms 56:9 — When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. 3 votes
- Psalms 44:10 — Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. 3 votes
Pointed to from (10)
- Psalms 45:5 — Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. 7 votes
- Psalms 11:2 — For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot… 5 votes
- Psalms 18:40 — Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. 4 votes
- Psalms 144:6 — Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them. 3 votes
Psalms 21:13
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
Points to (16)
- Revelation 16:5–7 — And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be,… 7 votes
- Revelation 19:1–6 — And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and… 6 votes
- Revelation 15:3–4 — And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous… 5 votes
- Psalms 113:5 — Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, 5 votes
- Psalms 57:11 — Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. 5 votes
- Revelation 11:17 — Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast… 4 votes
Pointed to from (18)
- Psalms 46:10 — Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. 76 votes
- Psalms 57:5 — Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth. 40 votes
- Psalms 59:16 — But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my… 27 votes
- Psalms 13:6 — I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. 16 votes