Psalms 33:19

Amplified Bible

To rescue their lives from death And keep them alive in famine.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
He rescues them from death and keeps them alive in times of famine.

English Revised Version
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Update Bible Version
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.

New Century Version
He saves them from death and spares their lives in times of hunger.

New English Translation
by saving their lives from death and sustaining them during times of famine.

Webster's Bible Translation
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

World English Bible
To deliver their soul from death, To keep them alive in famine.

English Standard Version
that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That he delyuere her soules fro deth; and feede hem in hungur.

Berean Standard Bible
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Contemporary English Version
He protects them from death and starvation.

American Standard Version
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.

Bible in Basic English
To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

Complete Jewish Bible
to rescue them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Darby Translation
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Easy-to-Read Version
He saves them from death. He gives them strength when they are hungry.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

King James Version (1611)
To deliuer their soule from death, and to keepe them aliue in famine.

New Life Bible
to save their soul from death, and to keep them alive when there is nothing to eat.

New Revised Standard
to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Geneva Bible (1587)
To deliuer their soules from death, and to preserue them in famine.

George Lamsa Translation
To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.

Good News Translation
He saves them from death; he keeps them alive in times of famine.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To rescue, from death, their soul, and to keep them alive in famine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-19) To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.

Revised Standard Version
that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in famine.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
To deliuer their soules from death: and to preserue their liues in dearth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
to deliver their souls from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Christian Standard Bible®
to rescue them from deathand to keep them alive in famine.

Hebrew Names Version
To deliver their soul from death, To keep them alive in famine.

King James Version
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Lexham English Bible
to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.

Literal Translation
to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Young's Literal Translation
To deliver from death their soul, And to keep them alive in famine.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That he maye delyuer their soules from death, and to fede them in the deare tyme.

New American Standard Bible
To rescue their soul from death And to keep them alive in famine.

New King James Version
To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
To deliver their soul from death And to keep them alive in famine.

Legacy Standard Bible
To deliver their soul from deathAnd to keep them alive in famine.

Contextual Overview

¹²Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen as His own inheritance. ¹³The LORD looks [down] from heaven; He sees all the sons of man; ¹⁴From His dwelling place He looks closely Upon all the inhabitants of the earth— ¹⁵He who fashions the hearts of them all, Who considers and understands all that they do. ¹⁶The king is not saved by the great size of his army; A warrior is not rescued by his great strength. ¹⁷A horse is a false hope for victory; Nor does it deliver anyone by its great strength. ¹⁸Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon those who fear Him [and worship Him with awe-inspired reverence and obedience], On those who hope [confidently] in His compassion and lovingkindness, ¹⁹To rescue their lives from death And keep them alive in famine.²⁰We wait [expectantly] for the LORD; He is our help and our shield. ²¹For in Him our heart rejoices, Because we trust [lean on, rely on, and are confident] in His holy name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

To deliver: Psalms 91:3-7, Psalms 91:10, John 10:28, John 10:30

to keep: Psalms 37:3, Psalms 37:19, Job 5:19-22, Proverbs 10:3, Isaiah 33:16, Matthew 6:31-33

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:1 - thee Genesis 41:34 - and take Ezra 8:22 - The hand Esther 6:4 - to speak Job 5:20 - famine Psalms 41:2 - preserve Psalms 66:12 - but thou Psalms 132:15 - I will satisfy Proverbs 19:23 - fear Isaiah 58:11 - and satisfy Jeremiah 37:21 - and that Ezekiel 14:20 - by Matthew 6:11 - General Hebrews 2:15 - deliver

Cross-References

Genesis 33:2
He put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

Genesis 33:17
But Jacob journeyed [north] to Succoth, and built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock; so the name of the place is Succoth (huts, shelters).

Genesis 33:20
There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Joshua 24:32
Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the plot of land which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money; and it became the inheritance of the sons of Joseph.

John 4:5
So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

Acts 7:16
and [from Egypt] their bodies were taken back to Shechem and placed in the tomb which Abraham had purchased for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To deliver their soul from death,.... Not a corporeal death, for the soul dies not, and is never in any danger of death; and should life, or the whole man, be intended here, yet those that fear the Lord, and hope in his mercy, are not exempted and secured from a corporeal death, but die as other men; though sometimes indeed they are remarkably preserved from death, and even in a time of general calamity; but a spiritual death is meant, which, while in a state of nature, they are under; but, being quickened at conversion, they live spiritually, and are preserved from dying any more in this sense; and also from an eternal death, which shall never harm them, nor have any power over them;

and to keep them alive in famine; not corporeal, though the Lord does give meat to them that fear him, and sometimes in a miraculous way provides for them; as by sending ravens to feed them, and by increasing the cruse of oil; see Isaiah 41:17; but spiritual, a famine of hearing the word of the Lord; the Lord prepares a place for his church and people in the wilderness, where they are privately nourished with the word and ordinances, and their souls kept alive, Revelation 12:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To deliver their soul from death - To preserve their “lives,” - for so the word “soul” is to be understood here. The meaning is, to keep them alive. That is, God is their Protector; He guards and defends them when in danger.

And to keep them alive in famine - In times of want. Compare Job 5:20. He can provide for them when the harvests fail. Famine was one of the evils to which the inhabitants of Palestine, and of Oriental countries generally, were particularly exposed, and it is often referred to in the Scriptures.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:19. To deliver their soul frown death — To watch over and protect them in all sudden dangers and emergencies, so that they shall not lose their LIVES by any accident.

And to keep them alive in famine. — Not only prevent sudden death by an instantaneous interposition of my power, but keep them from a lingering death, by extraordinary supplies granted them in an extraordinary manner; because I am all in all, and all everywhere.