But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
Parallel translations
- KJV But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
- BSB But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
- NKJV But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me. Selah
- NASB But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah
- NLT But as for me, God will redeem my life. He will snatch me from the power of the grave. Interlude
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- Ps 73:24You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- 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 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- Ps 89:48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
- Hos 13:14I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.
- Rev 5:9They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
- Ps 16:10–11For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
- Gen 5:24Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.
- Rev 14:13I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”
- Ps 31:5Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.
- Luke 23:46Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
- Acts 7:59They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
- John 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
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