Psalms 34

World English Bible 89 include this book

1 I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

2 My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

3 Oh magnify the LORD with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The LORD’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

8 Oh taste and see that the LORD is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

9 Oh fear the LORD, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

11 Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

12 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

14 Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

15 The LORD’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

16 The LORD’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

17 The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

18 The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

20 He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

21 Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

22 The LORD redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

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28 places named in this book — no place is named in this chapter, so the whole book is shown.

Jerusalem traditional Assembled for temple worship over several centuries.

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 1010 BC–400 BC David and many others
The Psalter is a collection assembled over centuries; individual psalms range widely in date.

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (1010 BC–400 BC).

1200 BC–1000 BC Iron working spreads in the Levant Levant
Iron gradually displaced bronze for tools and weapons across the eastern Mediterranean.
1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1200 BC–600 BC Zoroaster teaches in Persia Persia
Founder of Zoroastrianism, whose dating is disputed by as much as six centuries. His teaching on a cosmic struggle between good and evil later touched Jewish and Christian thought.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
776 BC First recorded Olympiad Greece
The traditional starting point of Greek historical chronology.
753 BC Traditional founding of Rome Rome
The legendary date of Rome's founding, later used as the anchor of the Roman calendar.
745 BC–609 BC Neo-Assyrian empire at its height Mesopotamia
Assyria dominated the Near East, deporting conquered populations as policy, including the northern kingdom of Israel.
620 BC–560 BC Coinage invented in Lydia Anatolia
Stamped electrum coins of guaranteed weight, an idea that spread across the ancient world within a century.

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