The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.
The young lions. "The young lions" are the symbol of powerful oppressors of the humble saints (Job 4:10-11; Psalms 57:4; Ezekiel 38:13; Ezekiel 19:2-3).
They that seek ... - (Psalms 84:11; Matthew 6:32-33). The limitation is implied in Psalms 34:19, that "many are the afflictions of the righteous." They have the promise of "an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal "life" (Mark 10:30; 1 Timothy 4:8).
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