Psalms 33:20

Christian Standard Bible ®

We wait for the Lord;he is our help and shield.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

King James Version
Our soul waiteth for the Lord : he is our help and our shield.

English Standard Version
Our soul waits for the Lord ; he is our help and our shield.

New Century Version
So our hope is in the Lord . He is our help, our shield to protect us.

New English Translation
We wait for the Lord ; he is our deliverer and shield.

Amplified Bible
We wait [expectantly] for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

New American Standard Bible
Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

World English Bible
Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Our soule waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helpe and our shielde.

Legacy Standard Bible
Our soul is patient for Yahweh;He is our help and our shield.

Berean Standard Bible
Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

Contemporary English Version
We depend on you, Lord , to help and protect us.

Complete Jewish Bible
We are waiting for Adonai ; he is our help and shield.

Darby Translation
Our soul waiteth for Jehovah: he is our help and our shield.

Easy-to-Read Version
So we will wait for the Lord . He helps us and protects us.

George Lamsa Translation
Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.

Good News Translation
We put our hope in the Lord ; he is our protector and our help.

Lexham English Bible
Our soul waits for Yahweh; he is our help and our shield.

Literal Translation
Our soul waits for Jehovah; He is our help and shield.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let oure soule paciently abyde the LORDE, for he is oure helpe and shilde.

American Standard Version
Our soul hath waited for Jehovah: He is our help and our shield.

Bible in Basic English
Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Our soul hath waited for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

King James Version (1611)
Our soule waiteth for the Lord: he is our helpe, and our shield.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our soule wayteth after God: he is our ayde and shielde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Our soul waits on the Lord; for he is our helper and defender.

English Revised Version
Our soul hath waited for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure soule suffreth the Lord; for he is oure helpere and defendere.

Update Bible Version
Our soul has waited for Yahweh: He is our help and our shield.

Webster's Bible Translation
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our shield.

New King James Version
Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

New Living Translation
We put our hope in the Lord . He is our help and our shield.

New Life Bible
Our soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and our safe cover.

New Revised Standard
Our soul waits for the Lord ; he is our help and shield.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our own soul, hath waited for Yahweh, Our help and our shield, is he!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-20) Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.

Revised Standard Version
Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and shield.

Young's Literal Translation
Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield [is] He,

THE MESSAGE
We're depending on God ; he's everything we need. What's more, our hearts brim with joy since we've taken for our own his holy name. Love us, God , with all you've got— that's what we're depending on.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our soul waits for the Lord ; He is our help and our shield.

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

soul: Psalms 27:14, Psalms 62:1, Psalms 62:2, Psalms 62:5, Psalms 62:6, Psalms 130:5, Psalms 130:6, Isaiah 40:31

he is: Psalms 115:9-12, Psalms 144:1, Psalms 144:2, 1 Chronicles 5:20

Reciprocal: Psalms 25:3 - wait Isaiah 8:17 - I will Hosea 13:9 - but Zechariah 4:6 - might Hebrews 13:6 - The Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 32:28
“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” he said. “It will be Israel because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

Genesis 33:7
Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.

Genesis 33:8
So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession I met?”

Genesis 35:7
Jacob built an altar there and called the place El-bethel because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our soul waiteth for the Lord,.... This, and what follows, are the words of the church, expressing her expectation, faith, and joy, by reason of what is suggested in the preceding verses. She signifies her expectation of good by waiting for the Lord; either for his coming in the flesh, and salvation by him; for which the patriarchs, prophets, and all the Old Testament saints, waited,

Genesis 49:18; and so the Targum paraphrases it, "our soul waiteth for the redemption of the Lord"; or for his spiritual coming, his appearance to them, and gracious presence with them, he having been for some time absent; and it is right and good so to do, and in the issue proves advantageous, Isaiah 8:17; and this being soul waiting, it denotes the heartiness, sincerity, and earnestness of it;

he [is] our help and our shield; the Lord is the help of his people in time of trouble, when none else is or can be; and he is a present one, and helps right early, and at the best season: and he is their shield, who encompasses them about with his love and favour, and keeps them by his power in the greatest safety; all which encourages their waiting upon him, and expectation of good things from him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our soul waiteth for the Lord - This and the subsequent verses to the end of the psalm refer to the people of God, expressing their faith in him in view of the considerations suggested in the former part of the psalm. The language is expressive of the general character of piety. True piety leads people to wait on the Lord; to depend on Him; to look to His interposition in danger, sickness, poverty, want; to rely upon Him for all that is hoped for in this life, and for salvation in the life to come. Compare Psalms 62:1; Psalms 25:3.

He is our help - Our aid; our helper. Compare Psalms 10:14; Psalms 22:11; Psalms 30:10.

And our shield - See the notes at Psalms 5:12. That is, He will defend us from our enemies, as if He threw His shield between us and them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:20. Our soul waiteth — Our whole life is employed in this blessed work; we trust in nothing but him; neither in multitudes of armed men, nor in natural strength, nor in the fleetest animals, nor in any thing human: we trust in Him alone "who is our help and our shield."