For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- KJV For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
- NKJV For great is Your mercy toward me, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
- NASB For Your graciousness toward me is great, And You have saved my soul from the depths of Sheol.
- NLT for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death.
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Quick answer
David praises God's great love because He delivered his soul from the lowest Sheol. God's rescue from death calls forth grateful worship.
Overview
The reason for David's praise is God's steadfast love shown in deliverance from the brink of death. Such rescue testifies to God's saving power. It foreshadows the ultimate deliverance accomplished in Christ, who conquered death and rescues His people from the grave.
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Cross-references · 16
- Ps 103:8–12The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
- Luke 1:58Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
- Ps 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
- Ps 57:10For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- Job 33:28He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
- Ps 116:8For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
- Ps 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Ps 30:3O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
- 1 Th 1:10and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
- Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
- Ps 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
- Isa 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
- Job 33:18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Job 33:22He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
- Ps 108:4For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
- Jonah 2:3–6For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
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