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Psalms 33:19

He saves them from death. He gives them strength when they are hungry.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Eye;   Faith;   Famine;   Righteous;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Famine;   Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Soul;   Worship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Deliver;   Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Humility;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Eye;   Famine and Drought;   Future Hope;   Hymn;   Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Hope;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ephron (1);   Famine;   Justice;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - God;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 10;   Every Day Light - Devotion for March 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
to rescue them from deathand to keep them alive in famine.
Hebrew Names Version
To deliver their soul from death, To keep them alive in famine.
King James Version
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
English Standard Version
that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.
New Century Version
He saves them from death and spares their lives in times of hunger.
New English Translation
by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.
Amplified Bible
To rescue their lives from death And keep them alive in famine.
New American Standard Bible
To rescue their soul from death And to keep them alive in famine.
World English Bible
To deliver their soul from death, To keep them alive in famine.
Geneva Bible (1587)
To deliuer their soules from death, and to preserue them in famine.
Legacy Standard Bible
To deliver their soul from deathAnd to keep them alive in famine.
Berean Standard Bible
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
Contemporary English Version
He protects them from death and starvation.
Complete Jewish Bible
to rescue them from death and keep them alive in famine.
Darby Translation
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
George Lamsa Translation
To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
Good News Translation
He saves them from death; he keeps them alive in times of famine.
Lexham English Bible
to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
Literal Translation
to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That he maye delyuer their soules from death, and to fede them in the deare tyme.
American Standard Version
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Bible in Basic English
To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
King James Version (1611)
To deliuer their soule from death, and to keepe them aliue in famine.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
To deliuer their soules from death: and to preserue their liues in dearth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
to deliver their souls from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
English Revised Version
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That he delyuere her soules fro deth; and feede hem in hungur.
Update Bible Version
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Webster's Bible Translation
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
New King James Version
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
New Living Translation
He rescues them from death and keeps them alive in times of famine.
New Life Bible
to save their soul from death, and to keep them alive when there is nothing to eat.
New Revised Standard
to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To rescue, from death, their soul, and to keep them alive in famine.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-19) To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.
Revised Standard Version
that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in famine.
Young's Literal Translation
To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
To deliver their soul from death And to keep them alive in famine.

Contextual Overview

12 Great blessings belong to those who have the Lord as their God! He chose them to be his own special people. 13 The Lord looked down from heaven and saw all the people. 14 From his high throne he looked down at all the people living on earth. 15 He created every person's mind, and he knows what each one is doing. 16 A king is not saved by the power of his army. A soldier does not survive by his own great strength. 17 Horses don't really bring victory in war. Their strength cannot help you escape. 18 The Lord watches over his followers, those who wait for him to show his faithful love. 19 He saves them from death. He gives them strength when they are hungry. 20 So we will wait for the Lord . He helps us and protects us. 21 He makes us happy. We trust his holy name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

To deliver: Psalms 91:3-7, Psalms 91:10, John 10:28, John 10:30

to keep: Psalms 37:3, Psalms 37:19, Job 5:19-22, Proverbs 10:3, Isaiah 33:16, Matthew 6:31-33

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:1 - thee Genesis 41:34 - and take Ezra 8:22 - The hand Esther 6:4 - to speak Job 5:20 - famine Psalms 41:2 - preserve Psalms 66:12 - but thou Psalms 132:15 - I will satisfy Proverbs 19:23 - fear Isaiah 58:11 - and satisfy Jeremiah 37:21 - and that Ezekiel 14:20 - by Matthew 6:11 - General Hebrews 2:15 - deliver

Cross-References

Genesis 33:2
Jacob put the maids with their children first. Then he put Leah and her children behind them, and he put Rachel and Joseph in the last place.
Genesis 33:17
But Jacob went to Succoth. There he built a house for himself and small barns for his cattle. That is why the place was named Succoth.
Genesis 33:20
He built an altar there to honor God. He named the place "El, the God of Israel."
Joshua 24:32
When the Israelites left Egypt, they carried the bones from the body of Joseph with them. They buried the bones of Joseph at Shechem on the land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of the man named Shechem. Jacob had bought that land for 100 pieces of pure silver. This land belonged to Joseph's children.
John 4:5
In Samaria Jesus came to the town called Sychar, which is near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Acts 7:16
Later, their bodies were moved to Shechem, where they were put in a tomb. It was the same tomb that Abraham had bought in Shechem from the sons of Hamor. He paid them with silver.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To deliver their soul from death,.... Not a corporeal death, for the soul dies not, and is never in any danger of death; and should life, or the whole man, be intended here, yet those that fear the Lord, and hope in his mercy, are not exempted and secured from a corporeal death, but die as other men; though sometimes indeed they are remarkably preserved from death, and even in a time of general calamity; but a spiritual death is meant, which, while in a state of nature, they are under; but, being quickened at conversion, they live spiritually, and are preserved from dying any more in this sense; and also from an eternal death, which shall never harm them, nor have any power over them;

and to keep them alive in famine; not corporeal, though the Lord does give meat to them that fear him, and sometimes in a miraculous way provides for them; as by sending ravens to feed them, and by increasing the cruse of oil; see Isaiah 41:17; but spiritual, a famine of hearing the word of the Lord; the Lord prepares a place for his church and people in the wilderness, where they are privately nourished with the word and ordinances, and their souls kept alive, Revelation 12:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To deliver their soul from death - To preserve their “lives,” - for so the word “soul” is to be understood here. The meaning is, to keep them alive. That is, God is their Protector; He guards and defends them when in danger.

And to keep them alive in famine - In times of want. Compare Job 5:20. He can provide for them when the harvests fail. Famine was one of the evils to which the inhabitants of Palestine, and of Oriental countries generally, were particularly exposed, and it is often referred to in the Scriptures.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:19. To deliver their soul frown death — To watch over and protect them in all sudden dangers and emergencies, so that they shall not lose their LIVES by any accident.

And to keep them alive in famine. — Not only prevent sudden death by an instantaneous interposition of my power, but keep them from a lingering death, by extraordinary supplies granted them in an extraordinary manner; because I am all in all, and all everywhere.


 
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