Psalm 21:5

5 Er hat große Ehre an deiner Hilfe; du legst Lob und Schmuck auf ihn.

Psalm 21:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 21:5

His glory [is] great in thy salvation
That is, the glory of the King Messiah is great in the Lord's salvation of him; delivering him from all his troubles and sorrows, and out of the hands of all his enemies, when he was raised from the dead, and was set at the right hand of God, and crowned with glory and honour: or the sense is, that his glory is great in the salvation of his people by him; it was his glory as Mediator to be appointed to be the Lord's salvation to them; and it being effected by him declares the glory and greatness of his person; and the nature of it is such as cannot fast of bringing glory to him; and such is the sense his people have of it, that it obliges them to ascribe the glory of it alone to him;

honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him;
which is to be understood not of the honour and majesty of his divine nature, which are essential to him, and not laid upon him by any; nor of the glory which the saints attribute to him on account of their salvation by him; but of that which his Father has put upon him, and lies in the introduction of him into his glory after his sufferings and death, and resurrection from the dead; in exalting him at his right hand above all creatures and things; in giving him all power in heaven and in earth; in putting all the gifts of the Spirit into his hands, which he receiving gave to men, and in ordaining him Judge of quick and dead.

Psalm 21:5 In-Context

3 Denn du überschüttest ihn mit gutem Segen; du setzt eine goldene Krone auf sein Haupt.
4 Er bittet Leben von dir; so gibst du ihm langes Leben immer und ewiglich.
5 Er hat große Ehre an deiner Hilfe; du legst Lob und Schmuck auf ihn.
6 Denn du setzest ihn zum Segen ewiglich; du erfreuest ihn mit Freude vor deinem Antlitz.
7 Denn der König hofft auf den HERRN und wird durch die Güte des HERRN fest bleiben.
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