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The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, But those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.
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The Failure of Self-Reliance
Commentators use the image of a young lion—strong, fierce, and self-sufficient—to represent worldly power. Despite their advantages, even lions can lack and suffer hunger. This illustrates a key spiritual principle: human strength and self-reliance are ultimately insufficient for true security and provision.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger—that is, they often do, as compared with the friends of God. The allusion is especially to…
19th Century
Anglican
Young lions. —See Note, Psalms 17:12. The young lion is the emblem of power and self-resource. Yet these sometimes lack…
Baptist
O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger According to Apollinarius, ``the needy rich, whom famine presses;'' see (…
If we hope to spend eternity in praising God, it is fitting that we should spend much of our time here in this work. He never said to anyone, S…
13th Century
Catholic
1. The title is a psalm of David, when he changed his countenance before Abimelech, who dismissed him, and he went his way.<…
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