Psalms 40:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.

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  • Ps 27:5 : 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
  • Ps 37:23 : 23 The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
  • Ps 69:2 : 2 I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance. 29 Men [and] brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. 30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne; 31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
  • Matt 13:50 : 50 ‹And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.›
  • Jer 38:6-9 : 6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that [was] in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon [there was] no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. 7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; 8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying, 9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [there is] no more bread in the city. 10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die. 11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. 12 And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now [these] old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
  • Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. 54 Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off. 55 ¶ I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
  • Jonah 2:5-6 : 5 The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
  • Zech 9:11 : 11 As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein [is] no water.
  • Matt 7:24-25 : 24 ‹Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:› 25 ‹And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.›
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.
  • Ps 17:5 : 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.
  • Ps 18:16-17 : 16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
  • Ps 18:36 : 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
  • Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 119:133 : 133 ¶ Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
  • Ps 142:6-7 : 6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
  • Ps 143:3 : 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
  • Isa 24:22 : 22 And they shall be gathered together, [as] prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

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  • 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

  • Jonah 2:5-7
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    5 The waters compassed me about, [even] to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

    6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

    7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

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    17 He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

    18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

  • 34 He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet]: and setteth me upon my high places.

  • 20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

  • Ps 30:1-3
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    1 ¶ A Psalm [and] Song [at] the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

    2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

    3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

  • Ps 18:16-17
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    16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

    17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

  • 33 He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places.

  • 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

  • 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

  • 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

  • 20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

  • 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, [and] my feet from falling.

  • 2 From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock [that] is higher than I.

  • 2 ¶ And he said, The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

  • 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou [art] my strength.

  • 49 And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

  • 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

  • 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.

  • 2 The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.

  • 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

  • 2 I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

  • 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, [that] my footsteps slip not.

  • 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

  • 19 The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

  • 1 ¶ A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

  • 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

  • 14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

  • 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

  • 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

  • 1 ¶ [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • 5 I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place.

  • 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.

  • 15 ¶ Mine eyes [are] ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

  • 7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

  • 2 He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

  • 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

  • 11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

  • 13 For 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?

  • 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I suffer] of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

  • 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

  • 10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.