The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
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The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
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The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
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(34-18) They cried, and the LORD heard, and delivered them out of all their troubles.
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Passages linked to Psalms 34:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 145:18-20 Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them. Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.
- Isaiah 65:24 It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
- Psalms 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
- Psalms 34:6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Psalms 91:15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
- Psalms 34:15 Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
- Acts 12:5-11 Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him. The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands. The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.” And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision. When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him. When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
- 2 Chronicles 32:24 In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
- 2 Chronicles 32:20-21 Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven. Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body killed him there with the sword.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 17. They It is wicked men who are spoken…
17. They It is wicked men who are spoken of in the immediately preceding verse; but they here evidently refers not to them, but to the righteous, mentioned in the fifteenth verse; and, accordingly, in all the ancient versions, and in our English Bible, the words the righteous are supplied. It is supposed by those who make this supplement, that the word צדיקים, tsaddikim, has been lost out of the text. But if we read the 16th verse as a parenthesis, it will not be necessary to make any supplement, and the words may be read exactly as they are in the Hebrew, They cried.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 34:17 [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth,…
Psa 34:17 [The righteous] cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Ver. 17. The righteous cry, &c.] This is often inculcated for our better assurance; because we are apt to doubt if delayed. See Psa 34:6.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Heb. They cry, to wit, the righteous, as is…
Heb. They cry, to wit, the righteous, as is manifest both from the nature of the thing, and from Psa 34:15, where they are so called, and with which this verse is to be continued, the 16th verse coming in by way of parenthesis, as is very usual in many places of Scripture.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The righteous cry,.... The word "righteous" is not in…
The righteous cry,.... The word "righteous" is not in the original text, but is rightly supplied in our version, as it is in the Targum, and by Jarchi; and so Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that these words are not to be connected with Psa 34:16, but with Psa 34:15; and they are indeed an amplification of the last clause of it; and the cry of the righteous is meant, to which the ears of the Lord are open; though Aben Ezra thinks that these words are to be understood of them that do evil, and of their cry to the Lord, when they turn from their evil ways; but the former sense is best;
and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles; their inward troubles, through the workings of corruption in their hearts; through the violent assaults of Satan, the blasphemous thoughts he injects into them, and his solicitations of them to sin; and through divine desertions, and their outward troubles; through afflictions of body, losses of estate and friends, and the reproaches and persecutions of men; out of all these the Lord sooner or later delivers his people who cry unto him.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. The righteous cry] There is no word…
Verse 17. The righteous cry] There is no word in the present Hebrew text for righteous; but all the versions preserve it. I suppose it was lost through its similitude to the word צעקו tsaaku, they cry צעקו צדיקים tsaaku tsaddikim, the righteous cry.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth - That…
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth - That is, one of the advantages or benefits of being righteous is the privilege of crying unto God, or of calling on his name, with the assurance that he will hear and deliver us. No one has ever yet fully appreciated the “privilege” of being permitted to call upon God; the privilege of prayer. There is no blessing conferred upon man in his present state superior to this; and no one can fully understand the force of the argument derived from this in favor of the service of God. What a world would this be - how sad, how helpless, how wretched - if there were no God to whom the guilty, the suffering, and the sorrowful might come; if God were a Being who never heard prayer at all; if he were a capricious Being who might or might not hear prayer; if He were a Being governed by fitful emotions, who would now hear the righteous, and then the wicked, and then neither, and who dispensed His favors in answer to prayer by no certain rule!
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(1) He often delivers them from trouble in this life in answer to prayer.
(2) he will deliver them literally from all trouble in the life to come.
The promise is not indeed, that they shall be delivered from all trouble on earth, but the idea is that God is able to rescue them from trouble here; that He often does it in answer to prayer; and that there will be, in the case of every righteous person, a sure and complete deliverance from all trouble hereafter. Compare the notes at Psa 34:6 : see Psa 34:19.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Humble penitents are objects of God's special tender regard…
Humble penitents are objects of God's special tender regard (Psa 51:19; Isa 57:15).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. They cried, and Jehovah heard;
17. They cried, and Jehovah heard;
And rescued them out of all their distresses.
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We may understand a subject from the verb, they who cried cried, as in Psa_34:5, i.e., when any cried: or with LXX and Vulg. supply the righteous. (Had the LXX this reading, or did they merely insert the word from Psa_34:15?) It is however possible that Psa_34:15-16 should be transposed, and then the righteous in Psa_34:15 supplies the natural subject to Psa_34:17. This transposition deserts the present order of the letters of the alphabet, but is justified by Lamentations 2, 3, 4, and Proverbs 31 according to the LXX, where Pç precedes Ayin.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth; literally, they…
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth; literally, they cry, and the Lord heareth. "Cry," which by the ordinary rules of grammar should have for its subject the "evil-doers" of the preceding verse, must, it is obvious from the context, refer to the "righteous" of ver. 15, who are the predominant subject of the entire passage( vers. 15-22). And delivereth them out of all their troubles. (comp. ver. 19 and Psa_54:7)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 17. The righteous cry. Like Israel in Egypt,…
Ver. 17. The righteous cry. Like Israel in Egypt, they cry out under the heavy yoke of oppression, both of sin, temptation, care, and grief. And the Lord heareth; he is like the night watchman, who no sooner hears the alarm bell than he flies to relieve those who need him. And delivereth them out of all their troubles. No net of trouble can so hold us that the Lord cannot free us. Our afflictions may be numerous and complicated, but prayer can set us free from them all, for the Lord will show himself strong on our behalf.
Ver. 17. Afflictions and their threefold blessing.
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1. They make us pray.
2. They bring us the Lord's hearing ear.
3. They afford room for joyful experience of deliverance.
Psalms 34:18*
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