Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with favor 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;
- 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,
- 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 prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
- Ps 71:23My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
- Ps 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
- Ps 34:22Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
- 1 Pet 5:4When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
- Ps 8:5For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.
- Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
- Ps 5:12For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- Ps 21:3For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.
- Gen 48:16the angel who has 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. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
- Job 33:19–30He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
- Ps 65:11You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
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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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