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Christian Standard Bible ®

Psalms 33:13

The Lord looks down from heaven;he observes everyone.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Heaven;   Man;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Humility;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Providence;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hymn;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Father's House;   Foreknow;   Omnipresence;   Omniscience;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Deism;   God;   Heaven;   Parallelism in Hebrew Poetry;   Providence;   Son of Man;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for March 22;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
King James Version
The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
English Standard Version
The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;
New Century Version
The Lord looks down from heaven and sees every person.
New English Translation
The Lord watches from heaven; he sees all people.
Amplified Bible
The LORD looks [down] from heaven; He sees all the sons of man;
New American Standard Bible
The LORD looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of mankind;
World English Bible
Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lorde looketh downe from heauen, and beholdeth all the children of men.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh looks from heaven;He sees all the sons of men;
Berean Standard Bible
The LORD looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord looks at the world
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai looks out from heaven; he sees every human being;
Darby Translation
Jehovah looketh from the heavens; he beholdeth all the sons of men:
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord looked down from heaven and saw all the people.
George Lamsa Translation
The LORD looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.
Good News Translation
The Lord looks down from heaven and sees all of us humans.
Lexham English Bible
From heaven Yahweh looks; he sees all the children of humankind.
Literal Translation
Jehovah looks down from Heaven; He sees all the sons of mankind.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE loketh downe from heauen, & beholdeth all the children of men:
American Standard Version
Jehovah looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men;
Bible in Basic English
The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men;
King James Version (1611)
The Lord looketh from heauen: he beholdeth all the sonnes of men.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
God looketh downe from heauen, and beholdeth all the chyldren of men
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord looks out of heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.
English Revised Version
The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord bihelde fro heuene; he siy alle the sones of men.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh looks from heaven; He beholds all the sons of man;
Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
New King James Version
The LORD looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.
New Living Translation
The Lord looks down from heaven and sees the whole human race.
New Life Bible
The Lord looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
New Revised Standard
The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all humankind.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Out of the heavens, hath Yahweh looked, He hath seen all the sons of men:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-13) The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men.
Revised Standard Version
The LORD looks down from heaven, he sees all the sons of men;
Young's Literal Translation
From the heavens hath Jehovah looked, He hath seen all the sons of men.
THE MESSAGE
From high in the skies God looks around, he sees all Adam's brood. From where he sits he overlooks all us earth-dwellers. He has shaped each person in turn; now he watches everything we do.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men;

Contextual Overview

12Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord—the people he has chosen to be his own possession! 13The Lord looks down from heaven;he observes everyone.14He gazes on all the inhabitants of the earthfrom his dwelling place. 15He forms the hearts of them all;he considers all their works. 16A king is not saved by a large army;a warrior will not be rescued by great strength. 17The horse is a false hope for safety;it provides no escape by its great power. 18But look, the Lord keeps his eye on those who fear him—those who depend on his faithful love 19to rescue them from deathand to keep them alive in famine. 20We wait for the Lord;he is our help and shield. 21For our hearts rejoice in himbecause we trust in his holy name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

looketh: Psalms 11:4, Psalms 14:2, Psalms 102:19, Genesis 6:12, 2 Chronicles 16:9, Job 28:24, Proverbs 15:3, Lamentations 3:50

beholdeth: Psalms 53:2, Jeremiah 23:23, Jeremiah 23:24, Hebrews 4:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 11:5 - General 1 Kings 8:30 - and hear 2 Chronicles 6:29 - what prayer Psalms 66:7 - his eyes Psalms 80:14 - look down Jeremiah 32:19 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 33:15
Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”
Genesis 33:16
That day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
Genesis 33:17
but Jacob went to Succoth. He built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
1 Chronicles 22:5
David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I will make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.
Proverbs 12:10
The righteous cares about his animal’s health,but even the merciful acts of the wicked are cruel.
Isaiah 40:11
He protects his flock like a shepherd;he gathers the lambs in his armsand carries them in the fold of his garment.He gently leads those that are nursing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord looketh from heaven,.... Where his throne and temple are, upon the earth and men, and things in it, as follows;

he beholdeth all the sons of men; the evil and the good; which is contrary to the sense of many wicked men, who imagine he takes no notice of what is done here below; but his eye is upon all, upon all the workers of iniquity, how secret soever they may be; and not only his eye of Providence is upon good men, but his eye of love, grace, and mercy; and he has a special and distinct knowledge of them: agreeably to this are some expressions of Heathen writers; says one e,

"the eye of God sees all things;''

says another f,

"there is a great God in heaven who sees all things, and governs.''

e παντα ιδων διος οφθαλμος, &c. Hesiod. Opera & Dies, l. 1. v. 263. f εστι μεγας εν ουρανω, &c. Sophoclis Electra, v. 174, 175.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord looketh from heaven - heaven is represented as his abode or dwelling; and from that place he is represented as looking down upon all the nations of the earth. The meaning here is, that he sees all that dwell upon the earth, and that, therefore, all that worship him are under his eye. He knows their wants, and he will watch over them to protect them. It is not merely to the abstract truth that God sees all who dwell upon the earth that the psalmist means to refer; but that those who are his friends, or who worship him, are all under his eye, so as to enjoy his watchful care and attention.

He beholdeth all the sons of men - All the descendants of “Adam,” for this is the original. There is no improbability in supposing that the word “Adam” here (usually meaning “man”) is employed as a proper name to denote the great ancestor of the human race, and that the psalmist means to refer to the race as one great family descended from a common ancestor, though scattered abroad over the face of the world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:13. The Lord looketh from heaven — This and the following verse seem to refer to God's providence. He sees all that is done in the earth, and his eye is on all the children of men.


 
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