Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Parallel translations
- WEB who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
- BSB who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
- 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 thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
- Ps 71:23My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.
- Ps 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
- Ps 34:22The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
- 1 Pet 5:4And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
- Ps 8:5For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
- Jas 1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
- Ps 5:12For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
- Rev 5:9And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
- Ps 21:3For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
- Gen 48:16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
- Job 33:19–30He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
- Ps 65:11Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
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