Psalms 34:17 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 34:17

The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

KJV

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ASV

The righteous cried, and Jehovah heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles.

WEB

The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.

YLT

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them.

DBT

[The righteous] cry, and Jehovah heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

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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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Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
1 John 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Psalms 145:18–20
The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
Isaiah 65:24
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Psalms 34:6
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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In this former part of the psalm, I. David engages and excites himself to praise God. Though it was his fault that he changed his behaviour, yet it was God's mercy that he escaped, and the mercy was so much the greater in that God did not deal with him according to the desert of his dissimulation, and we must in every thing give thanks.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Though he has been a God hearing prayer ever since men began to call upon the name of the Lord, yet his ear is not heavy. There is no rhetoric, nothing charming, in a cry, yet God's ears are open to it, as the tender mother's to the cry of her sucking child, which another would take no notice of: The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This intimates that it is the constant practice of good people, when they are in distress, to cry unto God, and it is their constant comfort that God hears them. [2.] He not only takes notice of what we say, but is ready for us to our relief (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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