For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Parallel translations
- WEB For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
- BSB For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
- NKJV For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.
- NASB For You have rescued my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from stumbling.
- NLT He has saved me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
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Quick answer
God delivered his soul from death, his eyes from tears, and his feet from falling. It matters because God's salvation is comprehensive, touching life, sorrow, and stability.
Overview
The psalmist itemizes a full deliverance: from death itself, from grief, and from stumbling. God's rescue addresses the whole person. This wholeness points to the salvation accomplished in Christ, who will finally wipe away every tear and keep his people from falling (Rev. 21:4; Jude 24).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- 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?
- Rev 21:4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
- Rev 7:17For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
- Ps 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
- Isa 25:8He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.
- Ps 37:24Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
- Ps 94:18When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
- Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
- Isa 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
- Judg 1:24And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.
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