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.
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.
- KJV 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.
- 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.
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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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Cross-references · 23
- Ps 138:7Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
- Hos 6:1–2“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
- Ps 60:3You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
- Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- Ezek 37:12–13Therefore prophesy, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.
- Ps 40:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- Ps 80:18So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.
- Ps 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
- Jonah 2:6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
- Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
- Ps 88:6–18You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
- Ps 16:10For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
- Eph 4:9Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
- Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
- Mark 15:34At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
- Mark 14:33–34He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
- 2 Sam 12:11“This is what Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
- Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- Rev 7:14I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
- Ps 66:10–12For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
- Ps 85:6Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?
- Acts 2:32–34This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- 2 Cor 11:23–31Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
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