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The Waters Are up to My Neck

Psalms 69:33

In 11 translations

BSB
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
KJV
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
WEB
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
ASV
For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.
LSV
For YHWH listens to the needy, || And He has not despised His bound ones.
YLT
For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.
DBY
For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.
DRC68:34
For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.
GNV
For the Lord heareth the poore, and despiseth not his prisoners.
JPS69:34
For the LORD hearkeneth unto the needy, and despiseth not His prisoners.
LXXE68:34
For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones.

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Original-language editions

WLC69:34
כִּֽי־שֹׁמֵ֣עַ אֶל־אֶבְיוֹנִ֣ים יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶת־אֲ֝סִירָ֗יו לֹ֣א בָזָֽה׃KJV:Ps.69.33
LXX-Br68:34
Ὅτι εἰσήκουσε τῶν πενήτων ὁ Κύριος, καὶ τοὺς πεπεδημένους αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐξουδένωσεν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 5:18–19and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out, saying,
  • Psalms 68:6God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
  • Zechariah 9:11–12As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.
  • Revelation 2:10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown…
  • Psalms 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
  • Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
  • Psalms 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
  • Ephesians 3:1For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...
  • Psalms 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
  • Acts 12:4–11He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover. So Peter was kept in prison, but the church…
  • Psalms 102:17He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
  • Psalms 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
  • Psalms 10:17You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
  • Isaiah 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
  • Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
  • Psalms 72:12–14For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper. He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed. He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their…

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