Psalms 56:13

David thanks God for delivering his soul from death so he can walk in the light of life before God. It closes the psalm with grateful testimony to salvation.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 116:8–9For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
• Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
• Rev 21:23–24The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
• Ps 145:14Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.
• Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
• Isa 2:5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
• Ps 17:5My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.
• 1 Th 1:10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
• Gen 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
• Isa 38:3and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• Ps 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
• Ps 86:12–13I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• John 12:35–36Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• Jas 5:20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
• 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
• Heb 2:15and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
• Eph 5:8–14For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• 2 Cor 1:10who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

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