Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Psalms 35:10

“All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?”

Psalms 35:10 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 35:10, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 35. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Exodus 15:11Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
  • Psalms 109:31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
  • Psalms 140:12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
  • Psalms 86:8Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
  • Psalms 71:19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
  • Psalms 51:8Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
  • Psalms 18:17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
  • Psalms 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
  • Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
  • Psalms 10:14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
  • Psalms 34:20He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
  • Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
  • Job 5:15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
  • Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

More to meet God in Psalms

Psalms 23:1Psalms 46:10Psalms 91:1Psalms 27:1Psalms 139:14Psalms 34:18Psalms 118:24Psalms 46:1Psalms 37:4Psalms 121:1Psalms 19:1Psalms 51:10Psalms 118:6Psalms 30:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.