Verse 3

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 28:1 : 1 To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
  • Ps 86:13 : 13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
  • Ps 16:10 : 10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
  • Job 33:19-22 : 19 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones; 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. 21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. 22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My 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 anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back. 18 For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.
  • Jonah 2:4-6 : 4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.' 5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
  • Ps 40:1-2 : 1 I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
  • Ps 56:13 : 13 For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
  • Ps 71:20 : 20 You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.