Psalms 74:19

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

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WEBBE

Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.

BSB

Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.

KJV

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

ASV

Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever.

BBE

O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.

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אַל־ 'al- may not H408 תִּתֵּן ti·ten you give H5414 לְחַיַּת le·chai·yat to an animal H2416 נֶפֶשׁ ne·fesh [the] life of H5315 תּוֹרֶךָ to·re·kha turtle-dove your H8449 חַיַּת chai·yat [the] life of H2416 עֲנִיֶּיךָ 'a·ni·yei·kha poor [people] your H6041 אַל־ 'al- may not H408 תִּשְׁכַּח tish·kach you forget H7911 לָנֶצַח la·ne·tzach to perpetuity H5331

The early church

But what sayest thou, O Asaph, now in understanding? "Deliver not to the beasts a soul confessing to Thee" (ver. 19). ...To what beasts, save to those the heads whereof were broken in pieces upon the water? For the same devil is called, beast, lion, and dragon. Do not, he saith, give to the Devil and his Angels a soul confessing to Thee. Let the serpent devour, if still I mind things earthly, if for things earthly I long, if still in the promises of the Old Testament, after the revealing of the New, I remain. But forasmuch as now I have laid down pride, and my own righteousness I will not acknowledge, but Thy Grace; against me let proud beasts have no power. "The souls of Thy poor forget Thou not unto the end." Rich we were, strong we were: but Thou hast dried up the rivers of Etham: no longer we establish our own righteousness, but we acknowledge Thy Grace; poor we are, hearken to Thy beggars. Now we do not dare to lift our eyes to Heaven, but smiting our breasts we say, "O Lord, be Thou merciful to me a sinner."

Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 18–23

The psalmist begs that God would appear for the church against their enemies. The folly of such as revile his gospel and his servants will be plain to all. Let us call upon our God to enlighten the dark nations of the earth; and to rescue his people, that the poor and needy may praise his name. Blessed Saviour, thou art the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Make thy people more than conquerors. Be thou, Lord, all in all to them in every situation and circumstances; for then thy poor and needy people will praise thy name.

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Church Afflictions And Adversities

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.