Psalms 66:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

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  • Isa 51:23 : 23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
  • 1 Thess 3:3-4 : 3 So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us. 4 And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see.
  • Jas 5:11 : 11 We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
  • Rev 7:14-17 : 14 And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them. 16 They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun: 17 For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.
  • Job 36:16 : 16 ...
  • Ps 33:19 : 19 To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.
  • Ps 40:2-3 : 2 He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain. 3 And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith in the Lord.
  • Ps 107:35-37 : 35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs. 36 And there he gives the poor a resting-place, so that they may make themselves a town; 37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.
  • Ps 129:1-3 : 1 <A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say); 2 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me. 3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
  • Isa 35:6-7 : 6 Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places. 7 And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.
  • Isa 43:1-2 : 1 But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine. 2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
  • Luke 16:25 : 25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

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    9 Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.

    10 For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

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  • Ps 66:6
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    6 The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.

  • Hab 3:15
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    15 The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.

  • Exod 15:12-13
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    74%

    12 When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

    13 In your mercy you went before the people whom you have made yours; guiding them in your strength to your holy place.

  • Ps 124:3-6
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    3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

    4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;

    5 Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.

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  • Ps 66:13
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    13 I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you,

  • Neh 9:11-12
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    11 By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

    12 And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

  • Deut 26:8-9
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    71%

    8 And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders:

    9 And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Ps 44:19
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    19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • Isa 63:13
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    13 He who made them go through the deep waters, like a horse in the waste land?

  • 2 Sam 22:17
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    17 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • Isa 43:2
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    2 When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.

  • Ps 77:19
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    19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

  • Ps 74:15
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    15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • Ps 81:7
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    7 You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

  • Josh 24:17
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    17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

  • Ps 18:16
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    16 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • Jer 2:6
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    6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

  • Deut 6:23
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    23 And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.

  • Isa 51:10
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    10 Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?

  • Deut 8:15
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    3 You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

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    16 The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

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    20 You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

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    9 You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.

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    13 The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

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    10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

  • Exod 15:7
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    21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • Job 30:22
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    22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

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  • Num 16:13
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    13 Is it not enough that you have taken us from a land flowing with milk and honey, to put us to death in the waste land, but now you are desiring to make yourself a chief over us?

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    12 Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.

  • Job 36:16
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    16 ...

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    20 But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today.

  • Lam 3:45
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    45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

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    19 For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land.

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    20 He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

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    12 You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.

  • Neh 9:15
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    15 And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

  • Isa 43:16
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    16 This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;