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Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms 34:19 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
  • BSB Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
  • NKJV Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.
  • NASB ¶The afflictions of the righteous are many, But the Lord rescues him from them all.
  • NLT The righteous person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time.

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The righteous face many afflictions, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.

Overview

David honestly acknowledges that the righteous suffer many troubles, yet promises God's complete deliverance. Faith does not exempt from affliction but assures rescue through it. This pattern of suffering and deliverance is supremely seen in Christ and shared by those united to him.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Ps 34:17The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
  • 1 Pet 4:12–13Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
  • 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
  • Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
  • John 16:33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
  • Ps 34:4I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
  • 2 Tim 3:11–12Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
  • Job 5:19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
  • Prov 24:16For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
  • 2 Cor 4:7–12But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
  • Ps 71:20Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
  • 1 Th 3:3–4That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
  • Heb 11:33–38Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • Acts 14:22Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
  • Job 42:12So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
  • Rev 7:14–17And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  • Jas 5:10–11Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
  • 2 Cor 11:23–27Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
  • Job 30:9–31And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

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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 34:19 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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