“O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.”
The psalmist exhorts those who fear the LORD to recognize that those who fear him experience lack of nothing. The phrase "those who fear the LORD" identifies the community of the faithful. The assertion that they "lack nothing" suggests that God's provision is comprehensive and sufficient. The verse promises material and spiritual abundance to those who maintain proper relationship with God. The apparent promise that the righteous lack nothing suggests that the poverty mentioned here may be spiritual.
Church Fathers on Psalms 34:9
A psalm of David, when he changed his countenance before Abimelech, and he sent him away, and he departed. 1. Because there was there a sacrifice after the order of Aaron, and afterwards He of His Own Body and Blood appointed a sacrifice after the order of Melchizedek; He changed then His Countenance in the Priesthood, and sent away the kingdom of the Jews, and came to the Gentiles. What then is, “He affected”? He was full of affection. For what is so full of affection as…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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