Psalms 69:33

Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord listens to poor, helpless people. He does not turn away from those who are in prison.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh hears the needyAnd does not despise His who are prisoners.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the Lord hears the needy And does not despise His who are prisoners.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For God heareth the poore: & dispiseth not his prisoners.

Darby Translation
For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.

New King James Version
For the LORD hears the poor, And does not despise His prisoners.

Literal Translation
For Jehovah hears the needy, and He does not despise His prisoners.

World English Bible
For Yahweh hears the needy, And doesn't despise his captive people.

King James Version
For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O considre this & be glad (ye that be in aduersite) seke after God, & yor soule shal lyue.

THE MESSAGE
For God listens to the poor, He doesn't walk out on the wretched.

Amplified Bible
For the LORD hears the needy And does not despise His who are prisoners.

American Standard Version
For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.

Bible in Basic English
For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.

Update Bible Version
For Yahweh hears the needy, And does not despise his prisoners.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

New English Translation
For the Lord listens to the needy; he does not despise his captive people.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord will listen when the homeless cry out, and he will never forget his people in prison.

Complete Jewish Bible
The afflicted will see it and rejoice; you seeking after God, let your heart revive.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lord heareth the poore, and despiseth not his prisoners.

George Lamsa Translation
For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.

Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD hears the needy, And doesn't despise his captive people.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The humble shall see it, and be glad; ye that seek after God, let your heart revive.

New Living Translation
For the Lord hears the cries of the needy; he does not despise his imprisoned people.

New Life Bible
For the Lord hears those who are in need, and does not hate His people in prison.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones.

English Revised Version
For the LORD heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.

New Revised Standard
For the Lord hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, a Hearkener to the needy, is Yahweh, And, his prisoners, hath he not despised.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(68-34) For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

Lexham English Bible
because Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners.

English Standard Version
For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.

New American Standard Bible
For the LORD hears the needy, And does not despise those of His who are prisoners.

New Century Version
The Lord listens to those in need and does not look down on captives.

Good News Translation
The Lord listens to those in need and does not forget his people in prison.

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord listens to the needy and does not despise His own who are prisoners.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the Lord herde pore men; and dispiside not hise boundun men.

Young's Literal Translation
For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.

Revised Standard Version
For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.

Contextual Overview

³⁰ I will praise God's name in song. I will honor him by giving him thanks. ³¹ The Lord will be happier with this than with the offering of an ox or a full-grown bull as a sacrifice. ³² Poor people, you came to worship God. You will be happy to know these things. ³³ The Lord listens to poor, helpless people. He does not turn away from those who are in prison. ³⁴ Praise him, heaven and earth! Sea and everything in it, praise him! ³⁵ God will save Zion. He will rebuild the cities of Judah. The people will settle there again and own the land. ³⁶ The descendants of his servants will get that land. Those who love his name will live there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Psalms 10:17, Psalms 34:6, Psalms 72:12-14, Psalms 102:17, Psalms 102:20, Isaiah 66:2, Luke 4:18

his prisoners: Psalms 107:10, Psalms 146:7, Zechariah 9:11, Zechariah 9:12, Acts 5:18, Acts 5:19, Acts 12:4-11, Ephesians 3:1, Revelation 2:10

Reciprocal: Job 10:3 - despise Psalms 28:6 - General Psalms 35:10 - which Psalms 40:17 - I am poor Psalms 79:11 - sighing Psalms 116:1 - because Psalms 118:21 - General Isaiah 49:9 - to the Jeremiah 20:13 - for Lamentations 3:34 - all Zechariah 11:11 - so 1 John 5:14 - he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord heareth the poor,.... The prayer of the poor, as the Targum; of the poor disciples of Christ, who were together mourning, weeping, and praying, when their Lord was dead, and laid in the sepulchre, Mark 16:10; this epithet agrees with all the followers of Christ, who for the most part are literally poor, and are all of them so in a spiritual sense; they are poor in spirit, and are sensible of it; they are full of wants, and these daily return upon them; wherefore they constantly apply to the throne of grace for help in time of need; and the Lord regards them, his eye is upon them, his heart is towards them, his thoughts are about them, his ears are open to their cries, and his hand is ready to supply their wants;

and despiseth not his prisoners; the same disciples of Christ; who being assembled together, the doors were shut for fear of the Jews,

John 20:19; it may be applied to such who are the Lord's prisoners; that is, for his sake, in a literal sense, as the Apostle Paul is called the prisoner of the Lord, Ephesians 3:1; and there were many, both under the Old and under the New Testament, that suffered imprisonment for their profession of religion; and these the Lord despises not, though men may, but highly esteems and honours; and it may be understood mystically and spiritually of such as are, in their nature state, prisoner of sin and Satan, and the law, and, when called, are prisoners of hope; these the Lord has a regard unto, and opens the prison doors and sets them at and directs them to the strong hold,

Isaiah 49:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the Lord heareth the poor - The needy; the humble; the unprotected. The reference is to those who are in circumstances of want and distress. The truth stated here is in accordance with all that is said in the Scriptures. Compare the notes at Psalms 34:6. See also Job 5:15; Psalms 10:14; Psalms 12:5; Psalms 35:10; Psalms 68:10.

And despiseth not his prisoners - He does not overlook them; he does not treat them as if they were worthy of no attention or regard. The word “prisoners” here may refer to those who are, as it were, bound by affliction under his own providential dealings; or to those who are oppressed, or are held as captives, or are thrown into prison, on his account. The particular reference here seems to be to David, and to those associated with him, who were straitened or deprived of their freedom in the cause of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 69:33. For the Lord heareth the poor — אביונים ebyonim, of the beggars. He perhaps refers here to the case of the captives, many of whom were reduced to the most abject state, so as to be obliged to beg bread from their heathen oppressors.

His prisoners. — The captives, shut up by his judgments in Chaldea, without any civil liberty, like culprits in a prison.