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the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
Psalms 146:8 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
  • KJV The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
  • NKJV The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord raises those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous.
  • NASB ¶The Lord opens the eyes of those who are blind; The Lord raises up those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous.
  • NLT The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are weighed down. The Lord loves the godly.

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Quick answer

God opens the eyes of the blind, raises the bowed down, and loves the righteous. He restores the broken and delights in those who walk uprightly.

Overview

God's compassionate works continue: giving sight, lifting the burdened, and loving the righteous. These acts reveal His tender care for the helpless. Jesus literally fulfilled this in healing the blind and lifting the downtrodden, signs that the kingdom had come (Matthew 11:5).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Ps 145:14The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
  • Ps 11:7For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
  • Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
  • Matt 9:30And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”
  • Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
  • Eph 1:18I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
  • 2 Cor 7:6But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,
  • Luke 13:11–13and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
  • Matt 11:5The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
  • John 16:27For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
  • Isa 42:16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
  • 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
  • John 14:21–23Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
  • Ps 147:6The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
  • Deut 33:3Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
  • John 9:7–33Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
  • Isa 42:18Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
  • Luke 18:41–42“What do you want Me to do for you?” “Lord,” he said, “let me see again.”

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 146:8 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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