Psalms 17:14 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 17:14

from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

BSB

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ASV

From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose belly thou fillest with thy treasure: They are satisfied with children, And leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

KJV

From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

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Commentary

4 voices

Hesychius of Jerusalem

LARGE COMMENTARY ON PSALMS 17:14 (450)

Here the psalmist is not criticizing the children's food, as some would think (for those things that enter the mouth do not make a person unclean), but he regards those to whom God has given many offspring unwise when they leave behind them not excellence …

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Belly - Mind or appetite, as that word is used, Job xx, 20. Treasure - With extraordinary wealth and glory. Children - When many of thy faithful servants are barren, these are blessed with a numerous posterity.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(2.) They have abundance of the world. [1.] They have enlarged appetites, and a great deal wherewith to satisfy them: Their bellies thou fillest with thy hidden treasures. The things of this world are called treasures, because they are so accounted; otherwise, to a soul, and in comparison with eternal blessings, they are but trash.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 1 (1869)

Almost every word of this verse has furnished matter for discussion to scholars, for it is very obscure. We will, therefore, rest content with the common version, rather than distract the reader with divers translations. "From men which are thy hand." Having styled the ungodly a sword in his Father's hand, he now likens them to that hand itself, to set forth his conviction that God could as easily remove their violence as a man moves his own hand. He will never slay his child with his own hand.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
מִֽמְתִ֥ים	mi.Tim	from men	H4962 →
יָדְךָ֨׀	ya.de.Kha	hand your	H3027 →
יְהוָ֡ה	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
מִֽמְתִ֬ים	mi.Tim	from men	H4962 →
מֵחֶ֗לֶד	me.Che.led	from [the] world	H2465 →
חֶלְקָ֥ם	chel.Kam	[whom] portion their	H2506 →
בַּֽחַיִּים֮	ba.chai.Yim	[is] in the life	H2416 →
וּֽצְפוּנְךָ֮	u.tze.fi.ne.kha	and treasured [thing] your	H6845 →
תְּמַלֵּ֪א	te.ma.Le'	you fill	H4390 →
בִ֫טְנָ֥ם	vit.Nam	belly their	H990 →
יִשְׂבְּע֥וּ	yis.be.'U	they are satisfied	H7646 →
בָנִ֑ים	va.Nim	sons	H1121 →
וְהִנִּ֥יחוּ	ve.hi.Ni.chu	and they leave	H5117 →
יִ֝תְרָ֗ם	yit.Ram	abundance their	H3499 →
לְעוֹלְלֵיהֶֽם׃	le.'o.lei.Hem	to children their	H5768 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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John 17:14
I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
leads to
- John 17:16
  They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 John 4:5–6
  They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 15:18–21
  If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
- 1 John 5:19–20
  We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
- John 8:23
  Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Through
Luke 16:25
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
leads to
- Luke 6:24
  But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.
- 1 John 2:15
  Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Through
John 8:23
Then He told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
leads to
- John 3:31
  The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks as one from the earth. The One who comes from heaven is…

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