Verse 3

O LORD, you have brought my soul up from the grave; you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 28:1 : 1 To you I cry, O LORD my rock; do not be silent to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of hell.
  • Ps 16:10 : 10 For You will not leave my soul in hell; nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.
  • Job 33:19-22 : 19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain; 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones, that were not seen, stick out. 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
  • Ps 116:8 : 8 For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
  • Isa 38:17-18 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but in love for my soul, You have delivered it from the pit of corruption: for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. 18 For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
  • Jonah 2:4-6 : 4 Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple. 5 The waters surrounded me, even to my soul: the depths closed in around me, the seaweed was wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its bars was around me forever: yet You have brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
  • Ps 40:1-2 : 1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.
  • Ps 56:13 : 13 For you have delivered my soul from death; will you not deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 You, who have shown me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.