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Psalms 34:15-17

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34:15 The Lord pays attention to the godly

and hears their cry for help. 1 

34:16 But the Lord opposes evildoers

and wipes out all memory of them from the earth. 2 

34:17 The godly 3  cry out and the Lord hears;

he saves them from all their troubles. 4 

1 tn Heb “the eyes of the Lord [are] toward the godly, and his ears [are] toward their cry for help.”

2 tn Heb “the face of the Lord [is] against the doers of evil to cut off from the earth memory of them.”

3 tn Heb “they” (i.e., the godly mentioned in v. 15).

4 tn The three perfect verbal forms are taken in a generalizing sense in v. 17 and translated with the present tense (note the generalizing mood of vv. 18-22).



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