Psalms 33:20

Amplified Bible

We wait [expectantly] for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
We put our hope in the Lord . He is our help and our shield.

English Revised Version
Our soul hath waited for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

Update Bible Version
Our soul has waited for Yahweh: He is our help and our shield.

New Century Version
So our hope is in the Lord . He is our help, our shield to protect us.

New English Translation
We wait for the Lord ; he is our deliverer and shield.

Webster's Bible Translation
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our shield.

World English Bible
Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

English Standard Version
Our soul waits for the Lord ; he is our help and our shield.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure soule suffreth the Lord; for he is oure helpere and defendere.

Berean Standard Bible
Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

Contemporary English Version
We depend on you, Lord , to help and protect us.

American Standard Version
Our soul hath waited for Jehovah: He is our help and our shield.

Bible in Basic English
Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

Complete Jewish Bible
We are waiting for Adonai ; he is our help and shield.

Darby Translation
Our soul waiteth for Jehovah: he is our help and our shield.

Easy-to-Read Version
So we will wait for the Lord . He helps us and protects us.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Our soul hath waited for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

King James Version (1611)
Our soule waiteth for the Lord: he is our helpe, and our shield.

New Life Bible
Our soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and our safe cover.

New Revised Standard
Our soul waits for the Lord ; he is our help and shield.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Our soule waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helpe and our shielde.

George Lamsa Translation
Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.

Good News Translation
We put our hope in the Lord ; he is our protector and our help.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our own soul, hath waited for Yahweh, Our help and our shield, is he!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(32-20) Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.

Revised Standard Version
Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and shield.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our soule wayteth after God: he is our ayde and shielde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Our soul waits on the Lord; for he is our helper and defender.

Christian Standard Bible®
We wait for the Lord;he is our help and shield.

Hebrew Names Version
Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

King James Version
Our soul waiteth for the Lord : he is our help and our shield.

Lexham English Bible
Our soul waits for Yahweh; he is our help and our shield.

Literal Translation
Our soul waits for Jehovah; He is our help and shield.

Young's Literal Translation
Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield [is] He,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let oure soule paciently abyde the LORDE, for he is oure helpe and shilde.

THE MESSAGE
We're depending on God ; he's everything we need. What's more, our hearts brim with joy since we've taken for our own his holy name. Love us, God , with all you've got— that's what we're depending on.

New American Standard Bible
Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

New King James Version
Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our soul waits for the Lord ; He is our help and our shield.

Legacy Standard Bible
Our soul is patient for Yahweh;He is our help and our shield.

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

soul: Psalms 27:14, Psalms 62:1, Psalms 62:2, Psalms 62:5, Psalms 62:6, Psalms 130:5, Psalms 130:6, Isaiah 40:31

he is: Psalms 115:9-12, Psalms 144:1, Psalms 144:2, 1 Chronicles 5:20

Reciprocal: Psalms 25:3 - wait Isaiah 8:17 - I will Hosea 13:9 - but Zechariah 4:6 - might Hebrews 13:6 - The Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every [ceremonially] clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 13:18
Then Abram broke camp and moved his tent, and came and settled by the [grove of the great] terebinths (oak trees) of Mamre [the Amorite], which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to [honor] the LORD.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD [in prayer], the Eternal God.

Genesis 32:28
And He said, "Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed."

Genesis 33:7
Leah also approached with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel approached, and they bowed down.

Genesis 33:8
Esau asked, "What do you mean by all this company which I have met?" And he answered, "[These are] to find favor in the sight of my lord."

Genesis 35:7
There he built an altar [to worship the LORD], and called the place El-bethel (God of the House of God), because there God had revealed Himself to him when he escaped from his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our soul waiteth for the Lord,.... This, and what follows, are the words of the church, expressing her expectation, faith, and joy, by reason of what is suggested in the preceding verses. She signifies her expectation of good by waiting for the Lord; either for his coming in the flesh, and salvation by him; for which the patriarchs, prophets, and all the Old Testament saints, waited,

Genesis 49:18; and so the Targum paraphrases it, "our soul waiteth for the redemption of the Lord"; or for his spiritual coming, his appearance to them, and gracious presence with them, he having been for some time absent; and it is right and good so to do, and in the issue proves advantageous, Isaiah 8:17; and this being soul waiting, it denotes the heartiness, sincerity, and earnestness of it;

he [is] our help and our shield; the Lord is the help of his people in time of trouble, when none else is or can be; and he is a present one, and helps right early, and at the best season: and he is their shield, who encompasses them about with his love and favour, and keeps them by his power in the greatest safety; all which encourages their waiting upon him, and expectation of good things from him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our soul waiteth for the Lord - This and the subsequent verses to the end of the psalm refer to the people of God, expressing their faith in him in view of the considerations suggested in the former part of the psalm. The language is expressive of the general character of piety. True piety leads people to wait on the Lord; to depend on Him; to look to His interposition in danger, sickness, poverty, want; to rely upon Him for all that is hoped for in this life, and for salvation in the life to come. Compare Psalms 62:1; Psalms 25:3.

He is our help - Our aid; our helper. Compare Psalms 10:14; Psalms 22:11; Psalms 30:10.

And our shield - See the notes at Psalms 5:12. That is, He will defend us from our enemies, as if He threw His shield between us and them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:20. Our soul waiteth — Our whole life is employed in this blessed work; we trust in nothing but him; neither in multitudes of armed men, nor in natural strength, nor in the fleetest animals, nor in any thing human: we trust in Him alone "who is our help and our shield."