Psalms 9:13

David pleads for mercy, asking God to see his affliction and lift him from death's gates. Even the confident worshiper depends on God's rescuing grace.

Cross-references · 17

• Ps 30:3Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
• Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
• Isa 38:10I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”
• Ps 13:3Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
• Ps 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
• Ps 38:19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
• Ps 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
• Ps 119:153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
• Ps 119:132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.
• Lam 1:11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: “Look, Yahweh, and see; for I have become abject.”
• Ps 107:18Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.
• Lam 1:9Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn’t remember her latter end; therefore she has come down astoundingly; she has no comforter: “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”
• Ps 116:3–4The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
• Ps 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
• Neh 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
• John 2:6Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.

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