Psalms 40:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.

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  • Ps 27:5 : 5 For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.
  • Ps 37:23 : 23 From Jehovah `are' the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.
  • Ps 69:2 : 2 I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me.
  • Acts 2:27-31 : 27 because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption; 28 Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance. 29 `Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day; 30 a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne, 31 having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
  • Matt 13:50 : 50 and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'
  • Jer 38:6-9 : 6 And they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah son of the king, that `is' in the court of the prison, and they send down Jeremiah with cords; and in the pit there is no water, but mire, and Jeremiah sinketh in the mire. 7 And Ebed-Melech the Cushite, a eunuch who `is' in the king's house, heareth that they have put Jeremiah into the pit; and the king is sitting at the gate of Benjamin, 8 and Ebed-Melech goeth forth from the king's house, and speaketh unto the king, saying, 9 `My lord, O king, these men have done evil `in' all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the pit, and he dieth in his place because of the famine, for there is no more bread in the city.' 10 And the king commandeth Ebed-Melech the Cushite, saying, `Take with thee from this thirty men, and thou hast brought up Jeremiah the prophet from the pit, before he dieth.' 11 And Ebed-Melech taketh the men with him, and entereth the house of the king, unto the place of the treasury, and taketh thence worn-out clouts, and worn-out rags, and sendeth them unto Jeremiah unto the pit by cords. 12 And Ebed-Melech the Cushite saith unto Jeremiah, `Put, I pray thee, the worn-out clouts and rags under thine arm-holes, at the place of the cords,' and Jeremiah doth so,
  • Lam 3:53-55 : 53 They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me. 54 Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off. 55 I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.
  • Jonah 2:5-6 : 5 Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head. 6 To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars `are' behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.
  • Zech 9:11 : 11 Also thou -- by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent thy prisoners out of the pit, There is no water in it.
  • Matt 7:24-25 : 24 `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; 25 and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock.
  • Ps 61:2 : 2 From the end of the land unto Thee I call, In the feebleness of my heart, Into a rock higher than I Thou dost lead me.
  • Ps 17:5 : 5 To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.
  • Ps 18:16-17 : 16 He sendeth from above -- He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters. 17 He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.
  • Ps 18:36 : 36 Thou enlargest my step under me, And mine ankles have not slidden.
  • Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of waters. 15 Let not a flood of waters overflow me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the pit shut her mouth upon me.
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For Thy kindness `is' great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
  • Ps 119:133 : 133 My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.
  • Ps 142:6-7 : 6 Attend Thou unto my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver Thou me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I. 7 Bring forth from prison my soul to confess Thy name, The righteous do compass me about, When Thou conferrest benefits upon me!
  • Ps 143:3 : 3 For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.
  • Isa 24:22 : 22 And they have been gathered -- A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

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