to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
Parallel translations
- WEB to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.
- KJV To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
- NKJV To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
- NASB To rescue their soul from death And to keep them alive in famine.
- NLT He rescues them from death and keeps them alive in times of famine.
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Quick answer
God watches over the faithful to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
Overview
The Lord's caring oversight has a saving purpose: to rescue his people from death and sustain them in scarcity. He preserves life where human strength fails. This points beyond physical preservation to the deliverance from death secured in Christ's resurrection.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 37:19In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.
- Prov 10:3The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
- Job 5:19–22He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
- Matt 6:31–33Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
- John 10:28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
- Isa 33:16he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.
- Ps 91:10no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.
- Ps 37:3Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
- Ps 91:3–7Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.
- Acts 12:11Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
- John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
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