You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
Parallel translations
- WEB You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
- KJV And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
- NKJV And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place.
- NASB And You have not handed me over to the enemy; You have set my feet in a large place.
- NLT You have not handed me over to my enemies but have set me in a safe place.
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Quick answer
God did not hand David over to the enemy but set his feet in a spacious place. It thanks God for freedom and deliverance.
Overview
The 'large place' contrasts with the confinement of being trapped by foes, picturing liberty and security. God's deliverance gives room to live and breathe. This spaciousness anticipates the freedom believers find in Christ, released from bondage into the broad place of grace.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Job 36:16Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
- Deut 32:30How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
- Ps 18:19He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
- Ps 4:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
- 1 Sam 17:46This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
- 1 Sam 24:18And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
- Isa 19:4I will deliver the Egyptians into the hands of harsh masters, and a fierce king will rule over them,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
- Ps 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- 1 Sam 26:8Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
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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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