Psalms 20:8

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
down	כָּרְע֣וּ ka.re.'U	H3766	to bend the knee · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
fallen	וְנָפָ֑לוּ ve.na.Fa.lu	H5307	to fall · conjunction + verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
risen	קַּ֝֗מְנוּ Kam.nu	H6965	to rise (in various applications · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common plural
upright	וַנִּתְעוֹדָֽד va.nit.'o.Dad	H5749	to duplicate or repeat · conjunction + verb, hithpael sequential imperfect, 1st person common plural

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Cross-references

Psalms 125:1 They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
Psalms 34:21-22 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Jeremiah 17:7-8 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Judges 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest fo…
Psalms 146:5-9 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 20:6–end

Here is, I. Holy David himself triumphing in the interest he had in the prayers of good people (Psa 20:6): "Now know I (I that pen the psalm know it) that the Lord saveth his anointed, because he hath stirred up the hearts of the seed of Jacob to pray for him." Note, It bodes well to any prince and people, and may justly be taken as a happy presage, when God pours upon them a spirit of prayer. If he see us seeking him, he will be found of us; if he cause us to hope in his word, he will establish his word to us. Now that so many who have an interest in heaven are praying for him he doubts not but that God will hear him, and grant him an answer of peace, which will, 1. Take its rise from above…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 20:8

They--that is, who trust in horses, &c. stand upright--literally, "we have straightened ourselves up from our distress and fears."

John Gill on Psalms 20:8

They are brought down and fallen,.... These are they that rode in chariots and on horses, and trusted in them; who are brought down from their places of honour and safety; and fall, not into the hands of their enemies, and into a low and mean estate, but to the ground by death; as also such who, being like Capernaum, lifted up to heaven with their own outward attainments, and think to get thither by them, are brought down to hell, and fall into the pit of corruption; but we are risen, and stand upright; who remember the name of the Lord, and trust in him; the church is sometimes in a very low and depressed condition; it consists of a poor and an afflicted people, and who are persecuted by m…

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John Calvin on Psalms 20:6–end

Psalm 20:6-9 6. Now I know that Jehovah hath saved his anointed; he will hear him from the heavens of his sanctuary, in the mightiness of the salvation of his right hand. [475] 7. Some trust [476] in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of Jehovah our God. 8. They are bowed down and are fallen; but we are risen and are erect. 9. Save, O Jehovah! let the king hear us in the day that we call upon him. 6. Now I know. Here there follows grateful rejoicing, in which the faithful declare that they have experienced the goodness of God in the preservation of the king. To this there is at the same time added a doctrine of faith, namely, that God showed by the effect that he p…

The Church Fathers

Those who trust in human honors have been snared by their own perverse desires and have fallen into the pit of death.
— Cassiodorus, EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 20:9

We will rise upright as others are collapsing, because our King is saved, and arising from the dead he ascends into the heavens, and as he sits on the right hand of God the Father he hears us in the day we call him. To him be glory forever. Amen.
— Arnobius the Younger, COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 20

They say these things will happen in the time of the advent of that Savior. Then all the powers of the adversaries and those hidden and secret enemies of God who have turned their backs on the Savior will be laid low. All who receive that Savior will rise from the first fall. Therefore, Simeon says, "Behold, this child is destined to cause the rising and falling of many," namely, the ruin of his enemies and adversaries and the resurrection of those who, having fallen once, have been rescued by him.
— Eusebius of Caesarea, COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 20:8-10

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Confidence · FALSE — FALSE

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 20:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 20:6–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 20:8

John Gill on Psalms 20:8

John Calvin on Psalms 20:6–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 20:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 20:6–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 20:8

John Gill on Psalms 20:8

John Calvin on Psalms 20:6–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 20:6-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 20:7

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 20:8