Psalms 40:2

God lifted David from a pit of miry clay and set his feet on solid rock. The Lord rescues from helpless ruin and gives sure footing.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 37:23The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
• Ps 119:133Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
• Ps 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
• Ps 61:2From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
• Matt 7:24–25Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
• Ps 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
• Jonah 2:5–6The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
• Ps 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
• Ps 69:2I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
• Ps 69:14–15Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
• Zech 9:11As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
• Ps 18:36You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.
• Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
• Jer 38:6–12So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
• Ps 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
• Ps 142:6–7Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
• Ps 18:16–17He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
• Ps 17:5My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
• Ps 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
• Lam 3:53–55They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
• Acts 2:27–31because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
• Matt 13:50and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Isa 24:22They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

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