Bible Strands
Psalms 145:14
The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — David addresses Yahweh in a praise psalm, moving from God's eternal kingdom (v. 13) to His concrete care for the vulnerable (v. 15).
The words — סוֹמֵךְ (sōmēkh, "sustaining") and זוֹקֵף (zōqēf, "raising up") are both present-tense participles, describing ongoing action rather than a single act of rescue.
The thread — The same verb זוֹקֵף appears in Psalms 146:8 ("lifts those who are weighed down"), and the sustaining hand recurs in Psalms 37:24 and 94:18.
Why it lands — It removes the burden of self-recovery: the fallen and the bowed are not left to pull themselves up, and the reader is placed in the category of those God is already sustaining.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.
Cross-references
- Psalms 146:8 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
- Psalms 37:24 Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
- Psalms 94:18 If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
- Luke 22:31 Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you like wheat.
- Psalms 119:117 Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.
- Luke 13:11 and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
- Psalms 42:5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
- Psalms 38:6 I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.