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King James Version

Psalms 22:26

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Desire;   Heart;   Humility;   Immortality;   Meekness;   Penitent;   Seekers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Meekness;   Meekness-Retaliation;   Promises, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Eternal Life;   Meekness;   Praise;   Satisfaction;   Seeking;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Meekness;   Seeking God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Heart;   Psalms, book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Meekness;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aijeleth Shahar;   Joseph;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Meekness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Aijeleth Hash-Shahar;   Atonement;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Heart;   Psalms;   Sin;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cedron;   Naphtali;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Meekness;   Poor;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Banquets;   Benedictions;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for May 15;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy.
English Revised Version
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek after him: let your heart live for ever.
Update Bible Version
The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise Yahweh that seek after him: Let your heart live forever.
New Century Version
Poor people will eat until they are full; those who look to the Lord will praise him. May your hearts live forever!
New English Translation
Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the Lord ! May you live forever!
Webster's Bible Translation
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
World English Bible
The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
Amplified Bible
The afflicted will eat and be satisfied; Those who [diligently] seek Him and require Him [as their greatest need] will praise the LORD. May your hearts live forever!
English Standard Version
The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord ! May your hearts live forever!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Pore men schulen ete, and schulen be fillid, and thei schulen herie the Lord, that seken hym; the hertis of hem schulen lyue in to the world of world.
Berean Standard Bible
The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
Contemporary English Version
The poor will eat and be full, and all who worship you will be thankful and live in hope.
American Standard Version
The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise Jehovah that seek after him: Let your heart live for ever.
Bible in Basic English
The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
Complete Jewish Bible
Because of you I give praise in the great assembly; I will fulfill my vows in the sight of those who fear him.
Darby Translation
The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
Easy-to-Read Version
Poor people, come eat and be satisfied. You who have come looking for the Lord , praise him! May your hearts be happy forever.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
From Thee cometh my praise in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear Him.
King James Version (1611)
The meeke shall eate and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seeke him; your heart shall liue for euer.
New Life Bible
Those who suffer will eat and have enough. Those who look for the Lord will praise Him. May your heart live forever!
New Revised Standard
The poor shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord . May your hearts live forever!
Geneva Bible (1587)
The poore shall eate and be satisfied: they that seeke after the Lorde, shall prayse him: your heart shall liue for euer.
George Lamsa Translation
The poor shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the LORD that seek him; their hearts shall live for ever.
Good News Translation
The poor will eat as much as they want; those who come to the Lord will praise him. May they prosper forever!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The patient wronged-ones shall eat and be satisfied, They shall praise Yahweh, who are seekers of him, Let your heart live for aye.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(21-27) The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.
Revised Standard Version
The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live for ever!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The poore shall eate, and be satisfied: they that seeke after God shall prayse hym, your heart shall lyue for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their heart shall live for ever.
Christian Standard Bible®
The humble will eat and be satisfied;those who seek the Lord will praise him.May your hearts live forever!
Hebrew Names Version
The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the LORD who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
Lexham English Bible
The afflicted will eat and will be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise Yahweh. May your heart live forever.
Literal Translation
The meek shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek Jehovah shall praise Him; your heart shall live forever.
Young's Literal Translation
The humble do eat and are satisfied, Praise Jehovah do those seeking Him, Your heart doth live for ever.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The poore shal eate ad be satisfied: they yt seke after ye LORDE shal prayse him: youre herte shal lyue for euer.
New American Standard Bible
The afflicted will eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him will praise the LORD. May your heart live forever!
New King James Version
The poor shall eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him will praise the LORD. Let your heart live forever!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The afflicted will eat and be satisfied; Those who seek Him will praise the Lord . Let your heart live forever!
Legacy Standard Bible
The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;Those who seek Him will praise Yahweh.May your heart live forever!

Contextual Overview

22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. 23 Ye that fear the Lord , praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. 25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord : and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. 28 For the kingdom is the Lord 's: and he is the governor among the nations. 29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. 31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The meek: Psalms 69:32, Leviticus 7:11-17, Isaiah 25:6, Isaiah 65:13, John 6:48-58

they: Psalms 105:3, Psalms 105:4

your: Psalms 69:32, John 4:14, John 6:51

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:22 - eat Exodus 29:33 - eat those Psalms 23:5 - preparest Psalms 25:9 - meek Psalms 40:16 - all Psalms 132:15 - I will satisfy Proverbs 9:5 - General Isaiah 49:9 - They shall feed Isaiah 55:2 - eat Isaiah 61:1 - to preach Lamentations 3:25 - unto Joel 2:26 - ye shall Amos 5:4 - and Zephaniah 2:3 - all Matthew 5:5 - the meek Matthew 11:5 - the poor John 6:54 - eateth John 10:16 - other Acts 15:17 - the residue 1 Corinthians 11:24 - eat Revelation 7:17 - feed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The meek shall eat and be satisfied,.... Such who, being made thoroughly sensible of sin, look upon themselves the chief of sinners, and the least of saints; and being truly convicted of the insufficiency of their own righteousness, wholly trust to and rely on the righteousness of Christ; and, being acquainted with their impotency and inability to do any good thing of themselves, ascribe all to the grace of God, and have no dependence on anything done by them; who are willing to be instructed and reproved by the meanest saint; are not easily provoked to wrath; patiently bear indignities and affronts, and are gentle unto all men: these shall "eat" the fat and drink the sweet of Christ the bread of lift; they shall eat of his flesh by faith, which is meat indeed; they shall find the word, and eat it; feed on the wholesome words of Christ, the words of faith and good doctrine, and shall be "satisfied", or "filled": other food is not satisfying; it proves gravel, ashes, and wind; it is not bread, and satisfies not; but such as hunger and thirst after Christ and his righteousness, and are poor in their own eyes, meek and humble; these are filled with good things to satisfaction, Matthew 5:6; Jarchi interprets these words of the time of the redemption and the days of the Messiah;

they shall praise the Lord that seek him; in Christ, with their whole heart; who being filled by him and satisfied, bless the Lord for their spiritual food and comfortable repast, as it becomes men to do for their corporeal food, Deuteronomy 8:10;

your heart shall live for ever; this is an address of Christ to them that fear the Lord, the seed of Jacob and Israel; the meek ones, and that seek the Lord, his face and favour, and who eat and are satisfied; signifying, that they should be revived and refreshed, should be cheerful and comfortable; should live by faith on Christ now, and have eternal life in them; and should live with him for ever hereafter, and never die the second death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The meek shall eat and be satisfied - The word “meek” - ענוים ănâviym - means here rather “afflicted, distressed, miserable.” This is its usual meaning. It is employed sometimes in the sense of mild or meek (compare Numbers 12:3); but it here manifestly denotes the afflicted; the poor; the distressed. When it is said that they would “eat and be satisfied,” the idea is that of prosperity or abundance; and the statement is, that, as the result of the Redeemer’s work, blessings in abundance would be imparted to the poor and the distressed - those who had been destitute, forsaken, and friendless.

They shall praise the Lord that seek him - Those that worship God, or the pious, shall see abundant cause to praise God. They will not merely call upon him by earnest prayer, but they will render him thanks for his mercies.

Your heart shall live for ever - The hearts of those that worship God. Their hearts would not faint or be discouraged. They would exult and rejoice continually. In other words, their joy and their praise would never die away.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 22:26. The meek shall eat — ענוים anavim. the POOR, shall eat. In the true only Sacrifice there shall be such a provision for all believers, that they shall have a fulness of joy. Those who offered the sacrifice, fed on what they offered. Jesus, the true Sacrifice, is the bread that came down from heaven; they who eat of this bread shall never die.


 
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