Psalms 20:2

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Psalms 20:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.

2 May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.

3 May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah

4 May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 73:17

until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

1 Kings 6:16

He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

1 Kings 8:44

When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,

1 Kings 8:45

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

2 Chronicles 20:8

They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,

2 Chronicles 20:9

‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless, David captured the fortress of Zion (that is, the City of David).

2 Samuel 6:17

So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 14:32

What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

Isaiah 37:34

He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.

Isaiah 37:35

‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”