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New Living Translation

Psalms 34:20

For the Lord protects the bones of the righteous; not one of them is broken!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Bones;   Jesus, the Christ;   Quotations and Allusions;   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflicted, Promises, Divine;   Afflictions;   Divine;   God's;   Keeper, Divine;   Overshadowing Providence;   Promises, Divine;   Providence, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted Saints;   Afflictions Made Beneficial;   Prophecies Respecting Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Achish;   Acrostic;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Legs ;   Necessity;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - David ;   Lord's Table, the;   ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   Achish;   Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for December 19;  

Parallel Translations

English Revised Version
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Update Bible Version
He keeps all his bones: Not one of them is broken.
New Century Version
He will protect their very bones; not one of them will be broken.
New English Translation
He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Webster's Bible Translation
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
World English Bible
He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
Amplified Bible
He keeps all his bones; Not one of them is broken.
English Standard Version
He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord kepith alle the boonys of hem; oon of tho schal not be brokun.
Berean Standard Bible
He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.
Contemporary English Version
Not one of their bones will ever be broken.
American Standard Version
He keepeth all his bones: Not one of them is broken.
Bible in Basic English
He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Complete Jewish Bible
The righteous person suffers many evils, but Adonai rescues him out of them all.
Darby Translation
He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will protect them completely. Not one of their bones will be broken.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Many are the ills of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
King James Version (1611)
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
New Life Bible
He keeps all his bones safe. Not one of them is broken.
New Revised Standard
He keeps all their bones; not one of them will be broken.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
George Lamsa Translation
He keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken.
Good News Translation
the Lord preserves them completely; not one of their bones is broken.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Keeping all his bones, Not, one from among them, is broken.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(33-21) The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will save the humble of spirit.
Revised Standard Version
He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He kepeth all his bones: so that no one of them is broken.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He keeps all their bones: not one of them shall be broken.
Christian Standard Bible®
He protects all his bones;not one of them is broken.
Hebrew Names Version
He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.
King James Version
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Lexham English Bible
He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Literal Translation
keeping all His bones; not one of them is broken.
Young's Literal Translation
He is keeping all his bones, One of them hath not been broken.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He kepeth all their bones, so yt not one of them is broken.
THE MESSAGE
He's your bodyguard, shielding every bone; not even a finger gets broken.
New American Standard Bible
He protects all his bones, Not one of them is broken.
New King James Version
He guards all his bones; Not one of them is broken.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He keeps all his bones, Not one of them is broken.
Legacy Standard Bible
He keeps all his bones,Not one of them is broken.

Contextual Overview

11 Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the Lord . 12 Does anyone want to live a life that is long and prosperous? 13 Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies! 14 Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace, and work to maintain it. 15 The eyes of the Lord watch over those who do right; his ears are open to their cries for help. 16 But the Lord turns his face against those who do evil; he will erase their memory from the earth. 17 The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles. 18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. 19 The righteous person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue each time. 20 For the Lord protects the bones of the righteous; not one of them is broken!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 35:10, Psalms 91:12, Daniel 6:22-24, John 19:36

Reciprocal: Psalms 37:24 - Though Matthew 4:6 - lest

Cross-References

Genesis 22:17
I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.
Genesis 23:10
Ephron was sitting there among the others, and he answered Abraham as the others listened, speaking publicly before all the Hittite elders of the town.
Deuteronomy 17:5
then the man or woman who has committed such an evil act must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death.
Ruth 4:1
Boaz went to the town gate and took a seat there. Just then the family redeemer he had mentioned came by, so Boaz called out to him, "Come over here and sit down, friend. I want to talk to you." So they sat down together.
2 Samuel 15:2
He got up early every morning and went out to the gate of the city. When people brought a case to the king for judgment, Absalom would ask where in Israel they were from, and they would tell him their tribe.
Job 29:7
"Those were the days when I went to the city gate and took my place among the honored leaders.
Proverbs 31:23
Her husband is well known at the city gates, where he sits with the other civic leaders.
Amos 5:10
How you hate honest judges! How you despise people who tell the truth!
Amos 5:12
For I know the vast number of your sins and the depth of your rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
Amos 5:15
Hate evil and love what is good; turn your courts into true halls of justice. Perhaps even yet the Lord God of Heaven's Armies will have mercy on the remnant of his people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken. This is literally true of Christ, in whom the type of the passover lamb had its accomplishment, and this passage also; see Exodus 12:46; and seems better to agree with him than with any of his members, since the bones of many of them have been broken by one accident or another; and especially many of the martyrs of Jesus have had all their bones broken upon the rack or wheel; wherefore, to understand these words of them might tend to create uneasiness and despondency in the minds of such who by any means have their bones broken; as if they were not righteous persons, this promise not being fulfilled in them: and to interpret this of the Lord's keeping the bones of his people in the grave, and in the resurrection putting them together again; this is no other than what will be done to the wicked; it seems therefore best to understand the whole of Christ; and it looks as if this passage was had in view as fulfilled in John 19:36; since a Scripture is referred to; but if it is interpreted of the righteous in general, it must be with a limitation; as that their bones are all kept by the Lord, and not one is broken without his knowledge and will; and that they are not broken finally, but restored again perfect and whole in the resurrection, and so will continue to all eternity: the phrase, without entering into particulars, may in general design the care of Providence over the righteous; with this compare Matthew 10:29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He keepeth all his bones - That is, he preserves or guards the righteous.

Not one of them is broken - Perhaps there is a direct and immediate allusion here to what the psalmist had himself experienced. In His dangers God had preserved him, so that he had escaped without a broken bone. But the statement is more general, and is designed to convey a truth in respect to the usual and proper effect of religion, or to denote the advantage, in reference to personal safety in the dangers of this life, derived from religion. The language is of a general character, such as often occurs in the Scriptures, and it should, in all fairness, be so construed. It cannot mean that the bones of a righteous man are never broken, or that the fact that a man has a broken bone proves that he is not righteous; but it means that, as a general principle, religion conduces to safety, or that the righteous are under the protection of God. Compare Matthew 10:30-31. Nothing more can be demanded in the fair interpretation of the language than this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 34:20. He keepeth all his bones — He takes care of his life; and if he have scars, they are honourable ones.


 
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