Skip to the text

Psalms · JPS Tanakh (1917)

Psalm 34 JPS Tanakh (1917)

Leer en español
About JPS
  • Jewish
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1917
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (2)

1 (34-1) A Psalm of David; when he changed his demeanour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed. (34-2) I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 (34-3) My soul shall glory in the LORD; the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 3 (34-4) O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together. 4 (34-5) I sought the LORD, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5 (34-6) They looked unto Him, and were radiant; and their faces shall never be abashed. 6 (34-7) This poor man cried, and the LORD heard, and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 (34-8) The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them. 8 (34-9) O consider and see that the LORD is good; happy is the man that taketh refuge in Him. 9 (34-10) O fear the LORD, ye His holy ones; for there is no want to them that fear Him. 10 (34-11) The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek the LORD want not any good thing. 11 (34-12) Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. 12 (34-13) Who is the man that desireth life, and loveth days, that he may see good therein? 13 (34-14) Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. 14 (34-15) Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. 15 (34-16) The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry. 16 (34-17) The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 (34-18) They cried, and the LORD heard, and delivered them out of all their troubles. 18 (34-19) The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit. 19 (34-20) Many are the ills of the righteous, but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. 20 (34-21) He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken. 21 (34-22) Evil shall kill the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall be held guilty. 22 (34-23) The LORD redeemeth the soul of His servants; and none of them that take refuge in Him shall be desolate.

Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Thessalonians 5:18; Colossians 3:17; Psalm 145:1–2; Ephesians 5:20; Psalm 71:8
  2. 2 Jeremiah 9:24; 1 Corinthians 1:31; Psalm 119:74; Psalm 44:8; 1 Timothy 1:15–16
  3. 3 Psalm 69:30; Luke 1:46; Psalm 148:1–14; Revelation 19:5–6; Psalm 40:16
  4. 4 Psalm 18:6; Matthew 7:7; Psalm 116:1–6; Psalm 56:3; 2 Timothy 1:7
  5. 5 Hebrews 12:2; Psalm 123:1–2; Psalm 18:28; Psalm 25:3; Isaiah 60:5
  6. 6 Psalm 34:17–19; Psalm 3:4; Psalm 10:17; Psalm 66:16–20; Psalm 40:17
  7. 7 Psalm 91:11; Daniel 6:22; Hebrews 1:14; 2 Kings 19:35; 2 Kings 6:17
  8. 8 Psalm 119:103; Hebrews 6:4–5; 1 Peter 2:2–3; Jeremiah 31:14; Psalm 63:5
  9. 9 Romans 8:32; Philippians 4:19; Psalm 23:1; Luke 12:30–32; Psalm 31:23
  10. 10 Psalm 84:11; Matthew 6:32; Psalm 104:21; Luke 1:51–53; Job 4:10–11
  11. 11 Proverbs 1:7; Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 2:1–9; Psalm 32:8; Isaiah 28:9
  12. 12 1 Peter 3:10–12; Deuteronomy 30:20; Deuteronomy 6:2; Psalm 91:16; Ecclesiastes 12:13
  13. 13 James 3:5–10; Psalm 141:3; Proverbs 21:23; 1 Peter 2:22; James 1:19
  14. 14 Psalm 37:27; 1 Peter 3:11; Hebrews 12:14; 3 John 11; Romans 12:9
  15. 15 1 Peter 3:12; Psalm 34:17; Psalm 33:18; Job 36:7; Psalm 130:2
  16. 16 Proverbs 10:7; Jeremiah 44:11; Jeremiah 17:13; Leviticus 17:10; Job 18:17
  17. 17 Psalm 145:18–20; Isaiah 65:24; Psalm 34:19; Psalm 34:6; Psalm 91:15
  18. 18 Psalm 147:3; Psalm 145:18; Isaiah 57:15; Isaiah 61:1; Psalm 51:17
  19. 19 Psalm 34:17; 1 Peter 4:12–13; Psalm 34:6; 2 Corinthians 4:17; John 16:33
  20. 20 John 19:36; Psalm 35:10; Psalm 91:12; Daniel 6:22–24
  21. 21 Psalm 94:23; Isaiah 3:11; Proverbs 24:16; Psalm 37:12–15; Psalm 89:23
  22. 22 Psalm 103:4; 1 Peter 1:18–19; Psalm 31:5; Psalm 71:23; 2 Samuel 4:9

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

Articles and answers on this site that cite Psalm 34.

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 34:11–17 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters XIX–XXV)

    The righteous cried, and the Lord heard him, and delivered him out of all his troubles." "Many are the stripes [appointed for] the wicked; but mercy shall compass those about who hope in the Lord." Chapter XXIII — Be humble, and believe that Christ will come again The all-merciful and beneficent Father has bowels [of compassion] towards those that fear …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 34:16 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapters XXV–XXVI)

    … is eternal, and the wrath of God which shall be revealed from heaven from the face of our Lord (as David also says, "But the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth" ), entails a heavier punishment on those who incur it,--the elders pointed out that those …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 34:18 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book V)

    For Thou art great, O Lord, and hast respect unto the lowly, but the proud Thou knowest afar off." Nor dost Thou draw near but to the contrite heart, nor art Thou found by the proud, --not even could they number by cunning skill the stars and the sand, and measure the starry regions, and trace the courses of the …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  4. Quotes verse 34:14 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily X)

    For it is said, "Depart from evil, and do good;" and again, "Make thy tongue to cease from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile." "But tell me the good too." "Seek peace, and pursue it:" I mean not peace with man only, but also peace with God.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 34:3 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture VI)

    Therefore magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His Name together,--all of us in common, for one alone is powerless; nay rather, even if we be all united together, we shall yet not do it as we ought.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)