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Text -- Psalms 34:10-22 (NET)
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34:10 Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry , but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing .
34:11 Come children ! Listen to me! I will teach you what it means to fear the Lord .
34:12 Do you want to really live ? Would you love to live a long , happy life ?
34:13 Then make sure you don’t speak evil words or use deceptive speech !
34:14 Turn away from evil and do what is right ! Strive for peace and promote it!
34:15 The Lord pays attention to the godly and hears their cry for help .
34:16 But the Lord opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth .
34:17 The godly cry out and the Lord hears ; he saves them from all their troubles .
34:18 The Lord is near the brokenhearted ; he delivers those who are discouraged .
34:19 The godly face many dangers , but the Lord saves them from each one of them .
34:20 He protects all his bones ; not one of them is broken .
34:21 Evil people self-destruct ; those who hate the godly are punished .
34:22 The Lord rescues his servants ; all who take shelter in him escape punishment .
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NET Notes: Psa 34:11 Heb “the fear of the Lord I will teach you.” In vv. 13-14 the psalmist explains to his audience what it means to “fear” the Lo...
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NET Notes: Psa 34:15 Heb “the eyes of the Lord [are] toward the godly, and his ears [are] toward their cry for help.”
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NET Notes: Psa 34:16 Heb “the face of the Lord [is] against the doers of evil to cut off from the earth memory of them.”
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NET Notes: Psa 34:17 The three perfect verbal forms are taken in a generalizing sense in v. 17 and translated with the present tense (note the generalizing mood of vv. 18-...
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NET Notes: Psa 34:20 Not one of them is broken. The author of the Gospel of John saw a fulfillment of these words in Jesus’ experience on the cross (see John 19:31-3...
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NET Notes: Psa 34:21 Heb “are guilty,” but the verb is sometimes used metonymically with the meaning “to suffer the consequences of guilt,” the eff...
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