who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
Parallel translations
- WEB who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
- KJV Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
- NKJV Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,
- NASB Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with favor and compassion;
- NLT He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
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Quick answer
God redeems life from the pit and crowns the believer with steadfast love and mercy. He not only rescues from death but lavishly honors His people.
Overview
Redemption from destruction pictures God buying back a life headed for the grave. Beyond rescue, He crowns His people, treating them as royalty adorned with loving kindness and tender mercies. This redemption is fulfilled in Christ, who ransoms us from sin and death and grants us eternal life.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Ps 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
- Ps 71:23When I sing praise to You my lips will shout for joy, along with my soul, which You have redeemed.
- Ps 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
- Ps 34:22The LORD redeems His servants, and none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.
- 1 Pet 5:4And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.
- Ps 8:5You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
- Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
- Ps 5:12For surely You, O LORD, bless the righteous; You surround them with the shield of Your favor.
- Rev 5:9And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
- Ps 21:3For You welcomed him with rich blessings; You placed on his head a crown of pure gold.
- Gen 48:16the angel who has redeemed me from all harm—may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
- Job 33:19–30A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
- Ps 65:11You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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