KJV King James Version
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
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Psalm 22:26
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
WEB World English Bible
The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
ASV American Standard Version
The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise Jehovah that seek after him: Let your heart live for ever.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The humble do eat and are satisfied, Praise Jehovah do those seeking Him, Your heart doth live for ever.
Surrounding context — Psalm 22
23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
25 My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
28 For the kingdom [is] the LORD’S: and he [is] the governor among the nations.
29 All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
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Psalm 69:32The humble shall see [this, and] be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.Psalm 40:16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.Isaiah 65:13Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:Psalm 105:3-4Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.John 6:48-58I am that bread of life.Isaiah 25:6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.Psalm 107:9For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.John 4:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.Leviticus 7:11-17And this [is] the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the LORD.
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