Psalmen 21:5

5 Het leven heeft hij van U begeerd. Gij hebt het hem gegeven; lengte van dagen, eeuwiglijk en altoos.

Psalmen 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.

Psalmen 21:5 In-Context

3 Gij hebt hem zijns harten wens gegeven, en de uitspraak zijner lippen hebt Gij niet geweerd. Sela.
4 Want Gij komt hem voor met zegeningen van het goede; op zijn hoofd zet Gij een kroon van fijn goud.
5 Het leven heeft hij van U begeerd. Gij hebt het hem gegeven; lengte van dagen, eeuwiglijk en altoos.
6 Groot is zijn eer door Uw heil; majesteit en heerlijkheid hebt Gij hem toegevoegd.
7 Want Gij zet hem tot zegeningen in eeuwigheid; Gij vervrolijkt hem door vreugde met Uw aangezicht.
The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.