Psalms 34:2

Douay-Rheims Bible

(33-3) In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will boast in the Lord;the humble will hear and be glad.

Hebrew Names Version
My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

King James Version
My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

English Standard Version
My soul makes its boast in the Lord ; let the humble hear and be glad.

New Century Version
My whole being praises the Lord . The poor will hear and be glad.

New English Translation
I will boast in the Lord ; let the oppressed hear and rejoice!

Amplified Bible
My soul makes its boast in the LORD; The humble and downtrodden will hear it and rejoice.

New American Standard Bible
My soul will make its boast in the LORD; The humble will hear it and rejoice.

World English Bible
My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

Geneva Bible (1587)
My soule shall glory in the Lord: the humble shall heare it, and be glad.

Legacy Standard Bible
My soul will make its boast in Yahweh;The humble will hear it and rejoice.

Berean Standard Bible
My soul will boast in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.

Contemporary English Version
With all my heart, I will praise the Lord . Let all who are helpless, listen and be glad.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will bless Adonai at all times; his praise will always be in my mouth.

Darby Translation
My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah: the meek shall hear, and rejoice.

Easy-to-Read Version
Humble people, listen and be happy, while I brag about the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad.

Good News Translation
I will praise him for what he has done; may all who are oppressed listen and be glad!

Lexham English Bible
My soul makes its boast in Yahweh; let the humble hear and be glad.

Literal Translation
My soul shall make its boast in Jehovah; the humble shall hear and be glad.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My soule shall make hir boast in the LORDE: the poore oppressed shal heare therof, and be glad.

American Standard Version
My soul shall make her boast in Jehovah: The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Bible in Basic English
My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

King James Version (1611)
My soule shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall heare thereof, and be glad.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
My soule shal glory in God: the humble shall heare therof and be glad.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My soul shall boast herself in the Lord: let the meek hear, and rejoice.

English Revised Version
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the meek shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi soule schal be preisid in the Lord; mylde men here, and be glad.

Update Bible Version
My soul shall make her boast in Yahweh: The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Webster's Bible Translation
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear [of it] and be glad.

New King James Version
My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

New Living Translation
I will boast only in the Lord ; let all who are helpless take heart.

New Life Bible
My soul will be proud to tell about the Lord. Let those who suffer hear it and be filled with joy.

New Revised Standard
My soul makes its boast in the Lord ; let the humble hear and be glad.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In Yahweh, boasteth my soul, The patient oppressed-ones shall hear and be glad.

Revised Standard Version
My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.

Young's Literal Translation
In Jehovah doth my soul boast herself, Hear do the humble and rejoice.

THE MESSAGE
I live and breathe God ; if things aren't going well, hear this and be happy:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
My soul will make its boast in the Lord ; The humble will hear it and rejoice.

Contextual Overview

¹ (33-1) <For David, when he changed his countenance before Achimelech, who dismissed him, and he went his way.> (33-2) I will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my mouth. ² (33-3) In the Lord shall my soul be praised: let the meek hear and rejoice. ³ (33-4) O magnify the Lord with me; and let us extol his name together. ⁴ (33-5) I sought the Lord, and he heard me; and he delivered me from all my troubles. ⁵ (33-6) Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded. ⁶ (33-7) This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles. ⁷ (33-8) The angel of the Lord shall encamp round about them that fear him: and shall deliver them. ⁸ (33-9) O taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth in him. ⁹ (33-10) Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. ¹⁰ (33-11) The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

make: Psalms 44:8, Psalms 105:3, Isaiah 45:25, Jeremiah 9:24, 1 Corinthians 1:31, 2 Corinthians 10:17

the humble: Psalms 22:22-24, Psalms 32:5, Psalms 32:6, Psalms 119:74, Psalms 142:7, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 Timothy 1:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:52 - worshipped Genesis 48:16 - redeemed Exodus 18:1 - heard 1 Chronicles 16:10 - Glory Psalms 62:8 - Trust Psalms 66:16 - Come Psalms 69:32 - The humble Psalms 143:9 - flee unto thee Luke 1:46 - General 2 Corinthians 1:4 - that Philippians 4:4 - alway

Cross-References

Genesis 6:2
The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 10:17
The Hevite and Aracite: the Sinite,

Genesis 20:2
And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.

Genesis 33:19
And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs.

Genesis 34:6
And when Hemor the father of Sichem was come out to speak to Jacob,

Genesis 34:7
Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob’s daughter.

Genesis 34:10
And dwell with us: the land is at your command, till, trade, and possess it.

Genesis 34:11
Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find favour in your sight, and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give:

Genesis 34:24
And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.

Genesis 34:25
And behold the third day, when the pain of the wound was greatest: two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dina, taking their swords, entered boldly into the city and slew all the men.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My soul shall make her boast in the Lord,.... Not in men, nor in any outward enjoyment, nor in any works of righteousness, but in the Lord; "in the Word of the Lord", as the Targum; in the Lord Jesus Christ; in his wisdom, strength, riches, righteousness, redemption, and salvation; in interest in him, and communion with him: and this is not tongue but soul boasting; and not flashy and selfish, but solid, spiritual, and hearty; and with all the powers and faculties of the soul; see 1 Corinthians 1:29;

the humble shall hear [thereof]; either of the deliverance the psalmist had out of the hands of his enemies; or of his blessing and praising the Lord for the same, and making his boast in him as the God of his salvation; or of both: of these humble ones, 1 Corinthians 1:29- :;

and be glad; for such rejoice with them that rejoice, and are glad at heart that others share in the goodness and grace of God; and also because by such an instance of the divine power and kindness they are encouraged to hope that he will, in his own time, deliver them out of their afflictions and distresses also.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My soul shall make her boast in the Lord - I myself will rejoice and exult in him. The word “boast” here refers to that on which a man would value himself; that which would be most prominent in his mind when he endeavored to call to remembrance what he could reflect on with most pleasure. The psalmist here says that when He did this, it would not be wealth or strength to which he would refer; it would not be his rank or position in society; it would not be what he had done, nor what he had gained, as pertaining to this life. His joy would spring from the fact that there was a God; that he was such a God, and that he could regard him as His God. This would be his chief distinction - that on which he would value himself most. Of all the things that we can possess in this world, the crowning distinction is, that we have a God, and that he is such a being as he is.

The humble shall hear thereof - The poor; the afflicted; those who are in the lower walks of life. They should hear that he put his trust in God, and they should find joy in being thus directed to God as their portion and their hope. The psalmist seems to have referred here to that class particularly, because:

(a) they would be more likely to appreciate this than those of more elevated rank, or than those who had never known affliction; and

(b) because this would be specially fitted to impart to them support and consolation, as derived from his own experience.

He had been in trouble. He had been encompassed with dangers. He had been mercifully protected and delivered. He was about to state how it had been done. He was sure that they who were in the circumstances in which he had been would welcome the truths which he was about to state, and would rejoice that there might be deliverance for them also, and that they too might find God a protector and a friend. Calamity, danger, poverty, trial, are often of eminent advantage in preparing the mind to appreciate the nature, and to prize the lessons of religion.

And be glad - Rejoice in the story of my deliverance, since it will lead them to see that they also may find deliverance in the day of trial.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 34:2. My soul shall make her boast — Shall set itself to praise the Lord-shall consider this its chief work.

The humble — ענוים anavim, the afflicted, such as David had been.