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Psalms 14:6

You [evildoers] shamefully plan against the poor, But the LORD is his safe refuge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Infidelity;   Poor;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Poor, the;   Promises, Divine;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Contempt;   Poor, the;   Protection;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hope;   Poor, Orphan, Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Refuge;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Belly;   Justification;   Poor;   Psalms, Book of;   Refuge;   Spirit;   Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Huna Bar Abbin Ha-Kohen;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 16;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed,but the Lord is his refuge.
Hebrew Names Version
You put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because the LORD is his refuge.
King James Version
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
English Standard Version
You would shame the plans of the poor, but the Lord is his refuge.
New Century Version
The wicked upset the plans of the poor, but the Lord will protect them.
New English Translation
You want to humiliate the oppressed, even though the Lord is their shelter.
New American Standard Bible
You would put to shame the plan of the poor, But the LORD is his refuge.
World English Bible
You put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Yahweh is his refuge.
Geneva Bible (1587)
You haue made a mocke at the counsell of the poore, because the Lord is his trust.
Legacy Standard Bible
You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,But Yahweh is his refuge.
Berean Standard Bible
You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.
Contemporary English Version
You may spoil the plans of the poor, but the Lord protects them.
Complete Jewish Bible
You may mock the plans of the poor, but their refuge is Adonai .
Darby Translation
Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because Jehovah [was] his refuge.
Easy-to-Read Version
You wicked people want to spoil the hopes of the poor, but the Lord will protect them.
George Lamsa Translation
They have reproached the counsel of the poor, because he trusts on the LORD.
Good News Translation
Evildoers frustrate the plans of the humble, but the Lord is their protection.
Lexham English Bible
You would put to shame the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
Literal Translation
You have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, for Jehovah is his refuge.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore shal they be brought in greate feare, for God stondeth by the generacion of the rightuous.
American Standard Version
Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Jehovah is his refuge.
Bible in Basic English
You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye would put to shame the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.
King James Version (1611)
You haue shamed the counsell of the poore; because the Lord is his refuge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
As for nowe ye make a mocke at the counsayle of the poore: because he reposeth his trust in God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his hope.
English Revised Version
Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for the Lord is in a riytful generacioun. Thou hast schent the counsel of a pore man; for the Lord is his hope.
Update Bible Version
You put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Yahweh is his refuge.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.
New King James Version
You shame the counsel of the poor, But the LORD is his refuge.
New Living Translation
The wicked frustrate the plans of the oppressed, but the Lord will protect his people.
New Life Bible
You would put to shame the planning of the poor. But the Lord keeps him safe.
New Revised Standard
You would confound the plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The purpose of the poor, ye would put to shame, because, Yahweh, is his refuge.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(13-6) For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope.
Revised Standard Version
You would confound the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.
Young's Literal Translation
The counsel of the poor ye cause to stink, Because Jehovah [is] his refuge.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted, But the Lord is his refuge.

Contextual Overview

4Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the LORD? 5There they tremble with great fear, For God is with the [consistently] righteous generation. 6You [evildoers] shamefully plan against the poor, But the LORD is his safe refuge.7Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores His captive people, Then Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ye: Psalms 3:2, Psalms 4:2, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:8, Psalms 42:10, Nehemiah 4:2-4, Isaiah 37:10, Isaiah 37:11, Ezekiel 35:10, Daniel 3:15, Matthew 27:40-43

Lord: Psalms 9:9, Hebrews 6:18

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:3 - my refuge Matthew 27:43 - trusted James 2:6 - ye Revelation 20:11 - I saw

Cross-References

Genesis 14:20
And blessed, praised, and glorified be God Most High, Who has given your enemies into your hand." And Abram gave him a tenth of all [the treasure he had taken in battle].
Genesis 16:7
But the Angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, on the road to [Egypt by way of] Shur.
Genesis 21:21
He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
Genesis 36:8
So Esau lived in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.
Numbers 10:12
and the Israelites set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud [of the LORD'S guiding presence] settled down in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 12:16
Afterward the people moved on from Hazeroth and camped in the Wilderness of Paran.
Numbers 13:3
So Moses sent spies from the Wilderness of Paran at the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 2:12
The Horites also used to live in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them. They destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land which the LORD gave them as their possession.)
Habakkuk 3:3
God [approaching from Sinai] comes from Teman (Edom), And the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah (pause, and calmly think of that). His splendor and majesty covers the heavens And the earth is full of His praise.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

You have shamed the counsel of the poor,.... The poor saints, the Lord's people, the generation of the righteous, who are generally the poor of this world; poor in spirit, and an afflicted people: and the counsel of them intends not the counsel which they give to others, but the counsel which they receive from the Lord, from the Spirit of counsel, which rests upon them, and with which they are guided; and this is to trust in the Lord, and to make him their refuge; and which is good advice, the best of counsel. Happy and safe are they that take it! But this is derided by wicked and ungodly men; they mock at the poor saints for it, and endeavour to shame them out of it; but hope makes not ashamed; see Psalms 22:7;

because the Lord [is] his refuge: he betakes himself to him when all others fail; and finds him to be a refuge from the storm of impending calamities, and from all enemies.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye have shamed - The address here is made directly to the wicked themselves, to show them the baseness of their own conduct, and, perhaps, in connection with the previous verse, to show them what occasion they had for fear. The idea in the verse seems to be, that as God was the protector of the “poor” who had come to him for “refuge,” and as they had “shamed the counsel of the poor” who had done this, they had real occasion for alarm. The phrase “ye have shamed” seems to mean that they had “despised” it, or had treated it with derision, that is, they had laughed at, or had mocked the purpose of the poor in putting their trust in Yahweh.

The counsel - The purpose, the plan, the act - of the poor; that is, in putting their trust in the Lord. They had derided this as vain and foolish, since they maintained that there was no God Psalms 14:1. They therefore regarded such an act as mere illusion.

The poor - The righteous, considered as poor, or as afflicted. The word here rendered “poor” - עני ânı̂y - means more properly, afflicted, distressed, needy. It is often rendered “afflicted,” Job 34:28; Psalms 18:27; Psalms 22:24; Psalms 25:16; Psalms 82:3; et al. in Psalms 9:12; Psalms 10:12 it is rendered “humble.” The common rendering, however, is “poor,” but it refers properly to the righteous, with the idea that they are afflicted, needy, and in humble circumstances. This is the idea here. The wicked had derided those who, in circumstances of poverty, depression, want, trial, had no other resource, and who had sought their comfort in God. These reproaches tended to take away their last consolation, and to cover them with confusion; it was proper, therefore, that they who had done this should be overwhelmed with fear. If there is anything which deserves punishment it is the act which would take away from the world the last hope of the wretched - “that there is a God.”

Because the Lord is his refuge - He has made the Lord his refuge. In his poverty, affliction, and trouble, he has come to God, and put his trust in him. This source of comfort, the doctrine of the wicked - that there “was no God” - tended to destroy. Atheism cuts off every hope of man, and leaves the wretched to despair. It would put out the last light that gleams on the earth, and cover the world with total and eternal night.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 14:6. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor — Instead of תבישו tabishu, "Ye have shamed," Bishop Horsley proposes to read תבישם tabishem, and translates the clause thus: "The counsel of the helpless man shall put them to shame." But this is not authorized by MS. or version. There is no need for any change: the psalmist refers to the confidence which the afflicted people professed to have in God for their deliverance, which confidence the Babylonians turned into ridicule. The poor people took counsel together to expect help from God, and to wait patiently for it; and this counsel ye derided, because ye did not know - did not consider, that God was in the congregation of the righteous.


 
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