If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
Parallel translations
- WEB When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- KJV When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
- NKJV If I say, “My foot slips,” Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up.
- NASB If I should say, “My foot has slipped,” Your faithfulness, Lord, will support me.
- NLT I cried out, “I am slipping!” but your unfailing love, O Lord, supported me.
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Quick answer
When the psalmist's foot was slipping, God's steadfast love held him up. God's covenant love sustains the believer at the point of collapse.
Overview
The image of a slipping foot pictures the moment of failing strength and faltering faith. At just that point, God's faithful love (chesed) upholds and steadies him. This tender, sustaining grace is the experience of all who are kept by God's power through faith in Christ (1 Peter 1:5; Jude 24).
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 121:3He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
- Isa 41:10Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
- Ps 119:116–117Sustain me as You promised, that I may live; let me not be ashamed of my hope.
- Ps 37:23–24The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
- Ps 38:16For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
- Ps 17:5My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
- Luke 22:32But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
- 1 Sam 2:9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
- Ps 73:2But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped.
- 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
- John 12:5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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