Psalm 34:17-22

Taste and See That the Lord Is Good

17 n When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
and delivers them out of all their troubles.
 18 The Lord is near to q the brokenhearted
and saves r the crushed in spirit.

19 s Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
t but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
 20 He keeps all his bones;
u not one of them is broken.
 21 v Affliction will slay the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
 22 The Lord w redeems the life of his servants;
none of those who take refuge in him will be x condemned.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 34:15
    The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 51:17
    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
    Psalms 147:3
    He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
    Isaiah 61:1
    The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 57:15
    For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
    Isaiah 66:2
    All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
    Luke 15:17 - 24
    But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!
  4. Cross References
    2 Timothy 3:11 - 12
    My persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra - which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 34:6
    This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.
    Psalms 34:17
    When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.
    Psalms 34:22
    The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.
    Acts 12:11
    When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.
  6. Cross References
    John 19:36
    For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 94:23
    He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.
    Proverbs 24:16
    For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
    Psalms 7:15 - 16
    He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 25:22
    Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.
  9. Cross References
    Romans 8:33 - 34
    Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
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