Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Parallel translations
- WEB You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
- BSB Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
- NKJV You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, Shall revive me again, And bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
- NASB You who have shown me many troubles and distresses Will revive me again, And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
- NLT You have allowed me to suffer much hardship, but you will restore me to life again and lift me up from the depths of the earth.
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Quick answer
Though God has allowed many bitter troubles, the psalmist trusts that the same God will revive him and bring him up again.
Overview
The psalmist acknowledges that his hardships have come within God's sovereign purpose, yet he holds firm hope that God will restore life. The language of being raised 'from the depths of the earth' breathes a confidence in revival after deep distress. For the believer this anticipates the resurrection hope secured in Christ, who was himself raised from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:20-22).
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- Ps 138:7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
- Hos 6:1–2Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
- Ps 60:3Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
- Ps 86:13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
- Ezek 37:12–13Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
- Ps 40:1–3I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
- Ps 80:18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
- Ps 119:25My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
- Isa 26:19Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
- Ps 88:6–18Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- Ps 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Eph 4:9(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
- Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
- Mark 15:34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
- Mark 14:33–34And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
- 2 Sam 12:11Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
- 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.
- Rev 7:14And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Ps 66:10–12For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
- Ps 85:6Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
- Acts 2:32–34This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
- 2 Cor 11:23–31Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
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