Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.
Parallel translations
- WEB who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.
- BSB He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 12
- Ps 121:3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
- Ps 112:6Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
- Ps 94:18When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
- 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
- Ps 37:23–24The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
- Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
- Ps 125:3For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
- Col 3:3–4For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- 1 Sam 25:29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
- Ps 62:2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
- Ps 22:29All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
- Ps 62:6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
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