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Psalm 20:9

Save, LORD! Let the King answer us when we call!

7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
8They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.
9Save, LORD! Let the King answer us when we call!
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Notice

“Save, LORD!” is a short, urgent cry, and the request for an answer makes the people's dependence on God plain.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 21:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in your strength, LORD! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!Psalm 20 ends by asking the LORD to save; Psalm 21 opens with the king rejoicing in the LORD's salvation.
Psalm 118:25Save us now, we beg you, LORD! LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now.Both prayers ask the LORD to save, expressing dependence through a direct plea for help.
Proverbs 29:26Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man’s justice comes from the LORD.Both texts look to the LORD for what people need, whether rescue or justice.
Psalm 5:2Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.Both prayers address a King and ask to be heard, joining royal authority with a personal cry for help.
Psalm 44:4God, you are my King. Command victories for Jacob!Both passages join the title King with an appeal for rescue or victory.
Matthew 21:15But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the son …The psalm asks the LORD to save; the children cry “Hosanna,” a plea for salvation, to the son of David.
Matthew 21:9The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! …The crowd's repeated “Hosanna” shares the sense of the psalm's short appeal for God to save.
Joshua 1:17Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses.Both passages appeal to the LORD: one asks for rescue, the other for his presence with Joshua.
Where this verse fits

Fear for the future. anxiety or panic. wanting a steady prayer habit.

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Encouragement

After words of trust and standing firm, the psalm still ends with a plea for help. Faith has room for the short cry, “Save, LORD!”

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).