Psalms 34:17

They cried, and Jehovah heard;

And rescued them out of all their distresses.

We may understand a subject from the verb, they who cried cried, as in Psalms 34:5, i.e., when any cried: or with LXX and Vulg. supply the righteous. (Had the LXX this reading, or did they merely insert the word from Psalms 34:15?) It is however possible that Psalms 34:15 should be transposed, and then the righteousin Psalms 34:15 supplies the natural subject to Psalms 34:17. This transposition deserts the present order of the letters of the alphabet, but is justified by Lamentations 2:3; Lamentations 2:4, and Proverbs 31 according to the LXX, where Pçprecedes Ayin.