Psalms 33:20
Our soul waiteth for Jehovah: he is our help and our shield.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
In Context
19To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
21For in him shall our heart rejoice, because we have confided in his holy name.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 5:20and they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them, because they put their trust in him.
Psalms 62:1{To the chief Musician. On Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.} Upon God alone doth my soul rest peacefully; from him is my salvation.
Psalms 115:9O Israel, confide thou in Jehovah: he is their help and their shield.
Psalms 144:1{[A Psalm] of David.} Blessed be Jehovah my rock, who teacheth my hands to war, my fingers to fight;
Isaiah 25:9And it shall be said in that day, Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah, we have waited for him; we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 33:13-22
God's Sovereign Power. 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord ; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance. 13 The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver… Read the whole commentary →