Psalm 34:5
New International Version
Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.

New Living Translation
Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces.

English Standard Version
Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.

Berean Standard Bible
Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

King James Bible
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

New King James Version
They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces were not ashamed.

New American Standard Bible
They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces will never be ashamed.

NASB 1995
They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces will never be ashamed.

NASB 1977
They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces shall never be ashamed.

Legacy Standard Bible
They looked to Him and were radiant, And their faces will never be humiliated.

Amplified Bible
They looked to Him and were radiant; Their faces will never blush in shame or confusion.

Christian Standard Bible
Those who look to him are radiant with joy; their faces will never be ashamed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces will never be ashamed.

American Standard Version
They looked unto him, and were radiant; And their faces shall never be confounded.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Gaze unto him and hope in him, and your faces will not be disappointed.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Draw near to him, and be enlightened: and your faces shall not by any means be ashamed.

Contemporary English Version
Keep your eyes on the LORD! You will shine like the sun and never blush with shame.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Come ye to him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

English Revised Version
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces shall never be confounded.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All who look to him will be radiant. Their faces will never be covered with shame.

Good News Translation
The oppressed look to him and are glad; they will never be disappointed.

International Standard Version
Look to him and be radiant; and you will not be ashamed.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They looked unto Him, and were radiant; And their faces shall never be abashed.

Literal Standard Version
They looked expectingly to Him, | And they became bright, | And their faces are not ashamed.

Majority Standard Bible
Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

New American Bible
Look to him and be radiant, and your faces may not blush for shame.

NET Bible
Those who look to him for help are happy; their faces are not ashamed.

New Revised Standard Version
Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.

New Heart English Bible
They looked to him and were radiant, and their faces are not ashamed.

Webster's Bible Translation
They looked to him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

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

Young's Literal Translation
They looked expectingly unto Him, And they became bright, And their faces are not ashamed.

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Context
Taste and See that the LORD is Good
4I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. 5Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed. 6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.…

Cross References
Psalm 25:3
Surely none who wait for You will be put to shame; but those who are faithless without cause will be disgraced.

Psalm 36:9
For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

Isaiah 60:5
Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.


Treasury of Scripture

They looked to him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

They

Psalm 123:1,2
A Song of degrees. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens…

Isaiah 45:22
Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

and were

Psalm 13:3
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Psalm 18:28
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Psalm 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

lightened.

Psalm 83:16
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

2 Samuel 19:5
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

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Psalm 34
1. David praises God, and exhorts others thereto by his experience
8. They are blessed who trust in God
11. He exhorts to the fear of God
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(5) Were lightened.--The Hebrew verb means properly "to flow," but by a natural process, as in the common phrases "streams of light," "floods of light," acquired in Aramaic the sense of "shining." Such must be its meaning in Isaiah 60:5, almost the echo of the thought in the psalm, the thought of a reflex of the Divine glory lighting up the face of those who in trouble seek God. (Theodoret has "He who approaches God, receives the rays of intellectual light.") We naturally think of the dying Stephen.

As to the construction, the subject must either be supplied from Psalm 34:2, or it must be general. The LXX. and Vulg. avoid the difficulty by changing to the second person.

Verse 5. - They looked unto him, and were lightened; or, were brightened (Hengstenberg); i.e. had their countenances lighted up and cheered. And their faces were not ashamed. As they would have been if God had made no response to their appeal (comp. Psalm 25:2, 3; Psalm 74:21).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Those who look
הִבִּ֣יטוּ (hib·bî·ṭū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

to Him
אֵלָ֣יו (’ê·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

are radiant with joy;
וְנָהָ֑רוּ (wə·nā·hā·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5102: To sparkle, be cheerful, to flow, assemble

their faces
וּ֝פְנֵיהֶ֗ם (ū·p̄ə·nê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

shall never
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

be ashamed.
יֶחְפָּֽרוּ׃ (yeḥ·pā·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2659: To blush, to be ashamed, disappointed, to shame, reproach


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