Psalm 34:17

17 Yì rén hū qiú , Yēhéhuá tīngjian le , biàn jiù tāmen tuōlí yīqiè huànnàn .

Psalm 34:17 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 34:17

[The righteous] cry
The word "righteous" is not in the original text, but is rightly supplied in our version, as it is in the Targum, and by Jarchi; and so Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that these words are not to be connected with ( Psalms 34:16 ) , but with ( Psalms 34:15 ) ; and they are indeed an amplification of the last clause of it; and the cry of the righteous is meant, to which the ears of the Lord are open; though Aben Ezra thinks that these words are to be understood of them that do evil, and of their cry to the Lord, when they turn from their evil ways; but the former sense is best;

and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles;
their inward troubles, through the workings of corruption in their hearts; through the violent assaults of Satan, the blasphemous thoughts he injects into them, and his solicitations of them to sin; and through divine desertions, and their outward troubles; through afflictions of body, losses of estate and friends, and the reproaches and persecutions of men; out of all these the Lord sooner or later delivers his people who cry unto him.

Psalm 34:17 In-Context

15 Yēhéhuá de yǎnmù , kàn gù yì rén , tāde ĕrduo , tīng tāmende hū qiú .

16 Yēhéhuá xiàng xíng è de rén biàn liǎn , yào cóng shìshang chúmiĕ tāmende míng haó .

17 Yì rén hū qiú , Yēhéhuá tīngjian le , biàn jiù tāmen tuōlí yīqiè huànnàn .

18 Yēhéhuá kàojìn shāngxīn de rén , zhĕngjiù língxìng tòng huǐ de rén .

19 Yì rén duō yǒu kǔnàn . dàn Yēhéhuá jiù tā tuōlí zhè yīqiè .