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 good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
• Ps 119:133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
• Ps 27:5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
• Ps 61:2From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
• Matt 7:24–25Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
• Ps 71:20Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
• Jonah 2:5–6The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
• Ps 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
• Ps 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
• Ps 69:14–15Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
• Zech 9:11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
• Ps 18:36Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
• Acts 2:24Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
• Jer 38:6–12Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
• Ps 143:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
• Ps 142:6–7Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
• Ps 18:16–17He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
• Ps 17:5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
• Ps 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Lam 3:53–55They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
• Acts 2:27–31Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
• Matt 13:50And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
• Isa 24:22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

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