Psalms 147:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 147:6

The Lord lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

KJV

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ASV

Jehovah upholdeth the meek: He bringeth the wicked down to the ground.

WEB

The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

YLT

Jehovah is causing the meek to stand, Making low the wicked unto the earth.

DBT

Jehovah lifteth up the meek; he abaseth the wicked to the earth.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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20 verses on the floor

James 4:10
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Psalms 25:9
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Psalms 146:8–9
The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

We are furnished with matter for praise, for God is to be glorified, 1. As the God of nature, and so he is very great,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

) may well enough be applied to the first building and fortifying of Jerusalem in his time, and the gathering in of those that had been out-casts in Saul's time. The Septuagint divides it into two; and we may divide it into the first and second part, but both of the same import. We are called upon to praise God,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

God proves himself to be God by looking on the proud and abasing them, Job xl. The provision he makes for the inferior creatures. Though he is so great as to command the stars, he is so good as not to forget even the fowls,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 147:61PE 5:6 LUK 14:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 147:6JAS 4:10 MAT 23:12
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 147:61PE 5:6 JAS 4:10
PSA 147:61PE 5:6 PRO 29:23
PSA 147:6JAS 4:10 1PE 5:6
PSA 147:61PE 5:6 LUK 18:14
PSA 147:6PSA 145:14 PSA 146:8
PSA 147:6JAS 4:10 JAS 4:6-7

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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