For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Parallel translations
- KJV For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine 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 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.
- Rev 21:4He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”
- Rev 7:17for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
- Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- Isa 25:8He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
- Ps 37:24Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
- Ps 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
- Isa 38:5“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh says, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
- Judg 1:24The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”
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