He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
Parallel translations
- WEB who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.
- KJV Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
- NKJV Who keeps our soul among the living, And does not allow our feet to be moved.
- NASB Who keeps us in life, And does not allow our feet to slip.
- NLT Our lives are in his hands, and he keeps our feet from stumbling.
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Quick answer
God preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping. It thanks God for sustaining and steadying His people.
Overview
The worshipers credit God with keeping them among the living and not letting their feet be moved. God's preserving care upholds His people through trials. This security is the inheritance of those whom Christ holds, from whom none can snatch them.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 121:3He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
- Ps 112:6Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.
- Ps 94:18If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
- 1 Sam 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
- Ps 37:23–24The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
- Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
- Ps 125:3For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
- Col 3:3–4For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 1 Sam 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
- Ps 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.
- Ps 22:29All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him—even those unable to preserve their lives.
- Ps 62:6He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.
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