Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 20:9

9. Save, LORD, let the king hear us when we call.

Either, 1[illegible: 1+ letters] David. So the Sence is, O Lord▪ preserve and assist the King, that when we are distressed and Cry to him for Help, he may be able and ready to Help us, Or 2. God, the Supream Monarch, the King of Kings, and in a peculiar manner the King of Israel, hear and answer us, when we pray for our King and People. And for the change of Persons in this Verse, nothing is more common. Or 3. Christ, called the King both in the Old and New Testament. But this Verse is by divers learned Men rendred thus, Lord save the King. He (i. e. the Lord) will hear us (Or, Let him hear us; For the future Tense is oft put Imperatively:) When we Cry, Or call upon him. And this version is very agreeable to the Hebrew Text. For whereas the only ground of the other Translation, i[illegible: 1+ letters], that the Hebrew Accent called Athnoch is put under the word save, which is supposed to stop the Sence there, it is sufficiently evident, that Athnoch doth not always make such a Distinction in these Poetical Books, as appears from Psal. 11. 5. and 17. 10. and 19. 4. and 22. 31. and therefore this may seem to be the better Version.