Parallel Verses English Standard Version The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. King James Bible The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. American Standard Version Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, And raiseth up all those that are bowed down. Douay-Rheims Bible The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down. English Revised Version The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. Webster's Bible Translation The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that are bowed down. Psalm 145:14 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThis memorable utterance of Jahve concerning Himself the writer of Psalm 103, which is of kindred import, also interweaves into his celebration of the revelation of divine love in Psalm 145:8. Instead of רב־חסד the expression here, however, is וגדול חסד (Kerמ, as in Nahum 1:3, cf. Psalm 89:29, with Makkeph וּגדל־). The real will of God tends towards favour, which gladly giving stoops to give (חנּוּן), and towards compassion, which interests itself on behalf of the sinner for his help and comfort (רחוּם). Wrath is only the background of His nature, which He reluctantly and only after long waiting (ארך אפּים) lets loose against those who spurn His great mercy. For His goodness embraces, as Psalm 145:9 says, all; His tender mercies are over all His works, they hover over and encompass all His creatures. Therefore, too, all His works praise Him: they are all together loud-speaking witnesses of that sympathetic all-embracing love of His, which excludes no one who does not exclude himself; and His saints, who live in God's love, bless Him (יברכוּכה written as in 1 Kings 18:44): their mouth overflows with the declaration (יאמרוּ) of the glory of the kingdom of this loving God, and in speaking (ידבּרוּ) of the sovereign power with which He maintains and extends this kingdom. This confession they make their employ, in order that the knowledge of the mighty acts of God and the glorious majesty of His kingdom may at length become the general possession of mankind. When the poet in Psalm 145:12 sets forth the purpose of the proclamation, he drops the form of address. God's kingdom is a kingdom of all aeons, and His dominion is manifested without exception and continually in all periods or generations (בּכל־דּור ודר as in Psalm 45:18, Esther 9:28, a pleonastic strengthening of the expression בּדר ודר, Psalm 90:1). It is the eternal circumference of the history of time, but at the same time its eternal substance, which more and more unfolds and achieves itself in the succession of the periods that mark its course. For that all things in heaven and on earth shall be gathered up together (ἀνακεφαλαιώσασθαι, Ephesians 1:10) in the all-embracing kingdom of God in His Christ, is the goal of all history, and therefore the substance of history which is working itself out. With Psalm 145:13 (cf. Daniel 3:33, Daniel 4:31, according to Hitzig the primary passages) another paragraph is brought to a close. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge upholdeth Psalm 94:18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up. raiseth up Psalm 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. Psalm 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? hope you in God... Cross References Psalm 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous. Psalm 37:24 though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD upholds his hand. Psalm 54:4 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life. Psalm 57:6 They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah Psalm 146:8 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous. Jump to Previous Bent Bowed Crushed Fall Falling Lifts Raises Raiseth Raising Support Supporting Sustains Upholdeth UpholdsJump to Next Bent Bowed Crushed Fall Falling Lifts Raises Raiseth Raising Support Supporting Sustains Upholdeth UpholdsLinks Psalm 145:14 NIVPsalm 145:14 NLT Psalm 145:14 ESV Psalm 145:14 NASB Psalm 145:14 KJV Psalm 145:14 Bible Apps Psalm 145:14 Biblia Paralela Psalm 145:14 Chinese Bible Psalm 145:14 French Bible Psalm 145:14 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |