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Selected Verse: Psalms 69:33 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 69:33 |
Strong Concordance |
For the LORD [03068] heareth [08085] the poor [034], and despiseth [0959] not his prisoners [0615]. |
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King James |
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
prisoners--peculiarly liable to be despised. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For the Lord heareth the poor - The needy; the humble; the unprotected. The reference is to those who are in circumstances of want and distress. The truth stated here is in accordance with all that is said in the Scriptures. Compare the notes at Psa 34:6. See also Job 5:15; Psa 10:14; Psa 12:5; Psa 35:10; Psa 68:10.
And despiseth not his prisoners - He does not overlook them; he does not treat them as if they were worthy of no attention or regard. The word "prisoners" here may refer to those who are, as it were, bound by affliction under his own providential dealings; or to those who are oppressed, or are held as captives, or are thrown into prison, on his account. The particular reference here seems to be to David, and to those associated with him, who were straitened or deprived of their freedom in the cause of God. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Prisoners - Those who are in prison or affliction for his sake. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
For the Lord heareth the poor - אביונים ebyonim, of the beggars. He perhaps refers here to the case of the captives, many of whom were reduced to the most abject state, so as to be obliged to beg bread from their heathen oppressors.
His prisoners - The captives, shut up by his judgments in Chaldea, without any civil liberty, like culprits in a prison. |
10 Thy congregation [02416] hath dwelt [03427] therein: thou, O God [0430], hast prepared [03559] of thy goodness [02896] for the poor [06041].
10 All my bones [06106] shall say [0559], LORD [03068], who is like unto thee, which deliverest [05337] the poor [06041] from him that is too strong [02389] for him, yea, the poor [06041] and the needy [034] from him that spoileth [01497] him?
5 For the oppression [07701] of the poor [06041], for the sighing [0603] of the needy [034], now will I arise [06965], saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; I will set [07896] him in safety [03468] from him that puffeth [06315] at him.
14 Thou hast seen [07200] it; for thou beholdest [05027] mischief [05999] and spite [03708], to requite [05414] it with thy hand [03027]: the poor [02489] committeth [05800] himself unto thee; thou art the helper [05826] of the fatherless [03490].
15 But he saveth [03467] the poor [034] from the sword [02719], from their mouth [06310], and from the hand [03027] of the mighty [02389].
6 This poor man [06041] cried [07121], and the LORD [03068] heard [08085] him, and saved [03467] him out of all his troubles [06869].