You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- 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.
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Quick answer
God brought David's soul up from Sheol and kept him from the pit. It celebrates rescue from the brink of death.
Overview
David describes deliverance so complete it is like being raised from the realm of the dead. God preserved his life when death seemed certain. This rescue from the pit anticipates the resurrection, where Christ conquers death itself for His people.
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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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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