Psalms 34:17

The righteous cry,.... The word "righteous" is not in the original text, but is rightly supplied in our version, as it is in the Targum, and by Jarchi; and so Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that these…

The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth - That is, one of the advantages or benefits of being righteous is the privilege of crying unto God, or of calling on his name, with the assurance that he will…

David, in this latter part of the psalm, undertakes to teach children. Though a man of war, and anointed to be king, he did not think it below him; though now he had his head so full of cares and his…

They cried, and Jehovah heard;

And rescued them out of all their distresses.

We may understand a subject from the verb, they who cried cried, as in Psa 34:34, i.e., when any cried: or with LXX and…