For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Parallel translations
- WEB For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- BSB For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 103:8–12The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
- Luke 1:58And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
- Ps 56:13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
- Ps 57:10For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
- Job 33:28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- Ps 116:8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
- Ps 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
- Ps 30:3O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- 1 Th 1:10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
- Job 33:24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
- Ps 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- 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.
- Job 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
- Job 33:22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
- Ps 108:4For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
- Jonah 2:3–6For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
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