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Psalm 147

Psa. 147:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
lifteth up
`uwd (Hebrew #5749)
to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
KJV usage: admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, protest, call (take) to record, relieve, rob, solemnly, stand upright, testify, give warning, (bear, call to, give, take to) witness.
Pronounce: ood
Origin: a primitive root
the meek
`anav (Hebrew #6035)
from 6031; depressed (figuratively), in mind (gentle) or circumstances (needy, especially saintly)
KJV usage: humble, lowly, meek, poor. Compare 6041.
Pronounce: aw-nawv'
Origin: or (by intermixture with 6041) Aanayv {aw-nawv'}
y: he casteth
shaphel (Hebrew #8213)
to depress or sink (expec. figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
KJV usage: abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble (self), be (bring, lay, make, put) low(-er).
Pronounce: shaw-fale'
Origin: a primitive root
the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
down
shaphel (Hebrew #8213)
to depress or sink (expec. figuratively, to humiliate, intransitive or transitive)
KJV usage: abase, bring (cast, put) down, debase, humble (self), be (bring, lay, make, put) low(-er).
Pronounce: shaw-fale'
Origin: a primitive root
to the ground
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
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Psa. 25:9• 9The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way. (Psa. 25:9)
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Matt. 5:5• 5Blessed the meek, for *they* shall inherit the earth. (Matt. 5:5)
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1 Peter 3:4• 4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. (1 Peter 3:4)

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lifteth up.
Psa. 25:9• 9The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way. (Psa. 25:9)
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Psa. 37:11• 11But the meek shall possess the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of prosperity. (Psa. 37:11)
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Psa. 145:14• 14Jehovah upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all that are bowed down. (Psa. 145:14)
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Psa. 146:8‑9• 8Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;
 9Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. (Psa. 146:8‑9)
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Psa. 149:4• 4For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people; he beautifieth the meek with salvation. (Psa. 149:4)
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1 Sam. 2:8• 8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set him among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them. (1 Sam. 2:8)
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Zeph. 2:3• 3Seek Jehovah, all ye meek of the land, who have performed his ordinance; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of Jehovah's anger. (Zeph. 2:3)
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Matt. 5:5• 5Blessed the meek, for *they* shall inherit the earth. (Matt. 5:5)
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James 4:10• 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you. (James 4:10)
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1 Peter 3:4• 4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. (1 Peter 3:4)
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1 Peter 5:6• 6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the due time; (1 Peter 5:6)
he casteth.
Psa. 55:23• 23And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee. (Psa. 55:23)
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Psa. 73:18‑19• 18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
 19How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors. (Psa. 73:18‑19)
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Psa. 146:9• 9Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert. (Psa. 146:9)
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2 Peter 2:4‑9• 4For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;
 5and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
 6and having reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, setting them as an example to those that should afterwards live an ungodly life;
 7and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,
 8(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works,)
 9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, and to keep the unjust to the day of judgment to be punished; (2 Peter 2:4‑9)
• Man may crush the meek; but the Lord lifts them up. Alas! man may exalt the wicked, but the Lord casts them down to the ground. (“Psalms 147” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah lifteth up the meek; he abaseth the wicked to the earth.