Psalms Chapter 33 verse 20 Holy Bible
Our soul hath waited for Jehovah: He is our help and our shield.
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Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.
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Our soul waiteth for Jehovah: he is our help and our shield.
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Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
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Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
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Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.
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Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield `is' He,
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Psalms 33 : 20 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 20-22. - A brief address of the people to God, arising out of what has been declared concerning his goodness (vers. 4, 5, 12-19) and his power (vers. 6-11), which constitute a call upon them for praise and adoration. Verse 20. - Our soul waiteth for the Lord (comp. Psalm 25:21; Psalm 62:1, 5; Psalm 130:5, 6, etc.). Confident in God's good will, and in his power to help us, we wait patiently and cheerfully for him to manifest himself in his own good time. He is our Help and our Shield. We trust in no one and nothing but him - not in armies (ver. 16), not in horses (ver. 17), not in our own strength (ver. 16). He alone is our dependence. (For the use of the metaphor "shield" for defence, see Psalm 5:12; Psalm 18:2; Psalm 28:7; Psalm 91:4; Psalm 119:114, etc.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(20-22) Hope--wait--trust.--The Hebrew language was naturally rich in words expressive of that attitude of expectancy which was characteristic of a nation whose golden age was not in the past, but in the future--a nation for which its great ancestor left in his dying words so suitable a motto--"I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord,"and which, while itself held back outside the promised land of the hope of immortality, was to be the birth-race of the great and consoling doctrine that alone could satisfy the natural craving expressed by the moralist in the well-known line--"Man never is, but always to be, blest;"and by the Christian apostle--"For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come."
