Psalms 33:20

Updated Bible Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
We wait for the Lord;he is our help and shield.

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.

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

¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, The people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. ¹³ Yahweh looks from heaven; He beholds all the sons of man; ¹⁴ From the place of his habitation he looks forth On all the inhabitants of the earth, ¹⁵ He that fashions the hearts of them all, That considers all their works. ¹⁶ There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. ¹⁷ A horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither does he deliver any by his great power. ¹⁸ Look, the eye of Yahweh is on those that fear him, On those that hope in his loving-kindness; ¹⁹ To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine. ²⁰ Our soul has waited for Yahweh: He is our help and our shield. ²¹ For our heart shall rejoice in him, Because we have trusted 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
And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

Genesis 13:18
And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar to Yahweh.

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

Genesis 32:28
And he said, Your name will not be Jacob anymore, but Israel: for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.

Genesis 33:7
And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and afterward came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

Genesis 33:8
And he said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.

Genesis 35:7
And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of 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."