The Nugget:
Psa 34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. (KJV)
Psa 34:17 Roused by the cry of the innocent, the Lord sets them free from all their afflictions. (Knox translation)
Psa 34:17 They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. (YLT, Young’s Literal Translation)
Psa 34:17 The godly cry out and the LORD hears; he saves them from all their troubles. (NET Bible)
Psa 34:17 When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. (ESV, English Standard Version)
Psa 34:17 The righteous call to the LORD, and he listens; he rescues them from all their troubles. (GNB, Good News Bible)
Psa 34:17 Righteous people cry out. The LORD hears and rescues them from all their troubles. (GW, God’s Word translation)
Psa 34:17 The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles. (BBE, Bible in Basic English)
Psa 34:17 Pray to the LORD, and he will hear you. He will save you from all your troubles. (ERV, Easy to Read Version)
Psa 34:17 When his people pray for help, he listens and rescues them from their troubles. (CEV, Contemporary English Version)
My Comment:
Once again we have the prayer promise that God hears our prayers. He delivers us from all our troubles. That does not mean we will not have troubles. We read in Psalm 34:19 that “Many are the afflictions of the righteous.” But in that verse we read the repeated promise: “but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.” We may experience many troubles, but we don’t know in this life how many unseen to us troubles the Lord has delivered us from of which we now are not aware.
Dig deeper into the subjects mentioned in Psalm 34:17 by reading and studying the cross references shared below from the Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury. I will add additional cross references here that are not given there.
Psalms 34:17
The righteous. FS63A1, +Gen 14:20. Note: There is no word for “the righteous” in the present Hebrew text; but it is preserved in all the versions; and it was probably lost from its similitude to tzaakoo, “they cry:” tzaakoo tzaddeekim, “the righteous cry.” Isa 57:15.
cry. +Psa 34:6; Psa 34:15; Psa 34:19. Psa 3:4; Psa 91:15; *Psa 145:18, 19, 20, Exo 14:10; +*Exo 22:23; Exo 22:24, +*Deut 24:15, 2Ch 32:20, 21; 2Ch 32:24, *Isa 65:24, Act 12:5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
the LORD heareth. +*Psa 119:26; Psa 145:19, **Pro 15:29, *Dan 10:12, 1Jo 5:14.
delivereth. T1730 (Deliverance from trouble). Psa 34:4. Psa 18:2; Psa 20:1, 2, 3, 4; Psa 22:11; Psa 25:22; *Psa 31:9; *Psa 31:10; *Psa 37:40, Psa 39:10; Psa 40:1, 2; +*Psa 40:17; Psa 41:1; Psa 50:14, 15; Psa 54:6, 7; Psa 71:20; Psa 77:2; Psa 107:4, 5, 6; Psa 107:11, 12, 13; Psa 107:17, 18, 19; Psa 107:25, 26, 27, 28; Psa 116:3, 4; Psa 119:153, 1Sa 26:24, 2Sa 4:9, Pro 23:11, Isa 33:2, Jon 3:5, 6, 7, 8, 9, John 12:27, 28, Act 7:10; Act 16:26.
out of all. The promise is not indeed, that they shall be delivered from all trouble on earth, but the idea is that God is able to rescue them from trouble here; that He often does it in answer to prayer; and that there will be, in the case of every righteous person, a sure and complete deliverance from all trouble hereafter (Barnes).