Psalms 33:19
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
BSB
ASV
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
KJV
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS 33:19 (585)
These are the two prayers of the most faithful Christian: to be rescued from eternal death at the coming judgment and to spend time here with spiritual nourishment. The Lord rescues the souls of the just from death when he raises them from the power …
He does not say that he will give them abundance (they have no reason either to desire it or to expect it), but he will keep them alive; they shall not starve; and, when destroying judgments are abroad, it ought to be reckoned a great favour, for it is a very striking one, and lays us under peculiar obligations, to have our lives given us for a prey.
To deliver their soul from death. The Lord's hand goes with his eye; he sovereignly preserves those whom he graciously observes. Rescues and restorations hedge about the lives of the saints; death cannot touch them till the King signs his warrant and gives him leave, and even then his touch is not so much mortal as immortal; he doth not so much kill us as kill our mortality. And to keep them alive in famine. Gaunt famine knows its master. God has meal and oil for his Elijahs somewhere.
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The walk8
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Through
John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
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And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
Through
Proverbs 10:3The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
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Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.