34:17 The godly 1 cry out and the Lord hears;
he saves them from all their troubles. 2
1 tn Heb “they” (i.e., the godly mentioned in v. 15).
2 tn 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. 18-22).