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Psalms 33:19

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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.
Easy-to-Read Version
He saves them from death. He gives them strength when they are hungry.
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

13From 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. 16No king succeeds with a big army alone, no warrior wins by brute strength. Horsepower is not the answer; no one gets by on muscle alone. 18Watch this: God's eye is on those who respect him, the ones who are looking for his love. He's ready to come to their rescue in bad times; in lean times he keeps body and soul together. 20We'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.

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 33:17
And Jacob left for Succoth. He built a shelter for himself and sheds for his livestock. That's how the place came to be called Succoth (Sheds).
Joshua 24:32
Joseph's bones, which the People of Israel had brought from Egypt, they buried in Shechem in the plot of ground that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor (who was the father of Shechem). He paid a hundred silver coins for it. It belongs to the inheritance of the family of Joseph.
Acts 7:16
Stephen, Full of the Holy Spirit Then the Chief Priest said, "What do you have to say for yourself?" Stephen replied, "Friends, fathers, and brothers, the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was still in Mesopotamia, before the move to Haran, and told him, ‘Leave your country and family and go to the land I'll show you.' "So he left the country of the Chaldees and moved to Haran. After the death of his father, he immigrated to this country where you now live, but God gave him nothing, not so much as a foothold. He did promise to give the country to him and his son later on, even though Abraham had no son at the time. God let him know that his offspring would move to an alien country where they would be enslaved and brutalized for four hundred years. ‘But,' God said, ‘I will step in and take care of those slaveholders and bring my people out so they can worship me in this place.' "Then he made a covenant with him and signed it in Abraham's flesh by circumcision. When Abraham had his son Isaac, within eight days he reproduced the sign of circumcision in him. Isaac became father of Jacob, and Jacob father of twelve ‘fathers,' each faithfully passing on the covenant sign. "But then those ‘fathers,' burning up with jealousy, sent Joseph off to Egypt as a slave. God was right there with him, though—he not only rescued him from all his troubles but brought him to the attention of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He was so impressed with Joseph that he put him in charge of the whole country, including his own personal affairs. "Later a famine descended on that entire region, stretching from Egypt to Canaan, bringing terrific hardship. Our hungry fathers looked high and low for food, but the cupboard was bare. Jacob heard there was food in Egypt and sent our fathers to scout it out. Having confirmed the report, they went back to Egypt a second time to get food. On that visit, Joseph revealed his true identity to his brothers and introduced the Jacob family to Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent for his father, Jacob, and everyone else in the family, seventy-five in all. That's how the Jacob family got to Egypt. "Jacob died, and our fathers after him. They were taken to Shechem and buried in the tomb for which Abraham paid a good price to the sons of Hamor.

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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