KJV King James Version
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
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Psalm 69:33
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
WEB World English Bible
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
ASV American Standard Version
For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.
Surrounding context — Psalm 69
30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31 [This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
32 The humble shall see [this, and] be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
33 For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
34 Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein.
35 For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.
36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
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Acts 5:18-19And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.Psalm 68:6God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry [land].Zechariah 9:11-12As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.Revelation 2:10Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.Psalm 146:7Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,Psalm 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety [from him that] puffeth at him.Ephesians 3:1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,Acts 12:4-11And when he had apprehended him, he put [him] in prison, and delivered [him] to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.Psalm 102:20To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;Psalm 102:17He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.Psalm 10:17LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:Psalm 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard [him], and saved him out of all his troubles.Psalm 72:12-14For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and [him] that hath no helper.Psalm 107:10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;Isaiah 66:2For all those [things] hath mine hand made, and all those [things] have been, saith the LORD: but to this [man] will I look, [even] to [him that is] poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
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