Psalms 33:20
Our soul waiteth for the Lord: our help and our shield is he.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
In Context
19To deliver from death their soul, and to keep them alive in famine.
21For in him shall our heart rejoice: because in his holy name have we trusted.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 5:20And they obtained help against them, and the Hagarenes were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for to God they cried in the battle, and he was entreated by them; because they put their trust in him.
Psalms 62:1“To the chief musician, upon Jeduthun, a psalm of David.” (62:2) Only in God my soul trusted in silence: from him cometh my salvation.
Psalms 115:9O Israel, trust thou in the Lord—he is their help and their shield.
Psalms 144:1“By David.” Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who exerciseth my hands for the battle, my fingers for the war:
Isaiah 25:9And men will say on that day, Lo, this is our God, for whom we have waited that he would help us; this is the Lord for whom we have waited, we will be glad and we will 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 →