Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
Parallel translations
- KJV O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- BSB O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
- NKJV O Lord, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- NASB Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.
- NLT You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 16:10For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
- Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- Ps 28:1By David. To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
- Isa 38:17–18Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
- Jonah 2:4–6I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
- Ps 40:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- Ps 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
- Job 33:19–22He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
- 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 116:8For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
- Job 33:28He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’
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