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The LORD Has Heard My Voice

Psalms 116:8

In 11 translations

BSB
For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
KJV
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
WEB
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
ASV
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.
LSV
For You have delivered my soul from death, || My eyes from tears, my feet from overthrowing.
YLT
For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, my feet from overthrowing.
DBY
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
DRC114:8
For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
GNV
Because thou hast deliuered my soule from death, mine eyes from teares, and my feete from falling.
JPS
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling.
LXXE114:8
For he has delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
כִּ֤י חִלַּ֥צְתָּ נַפְשִׁ֗י מִ֫מָּ֥וֶת אֶת־עֵינִ֥י מִן־דִּמְעָ֑ה אֶת־רַגְלִ֥י מִדֶּֽחִי׃
LXX-Br114:8
Ὅτι ἐξείλετο τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐκ θανάτου, τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου ἀπὸ δακρύων, καὶ τοὺς πόδας μου ἀπὸ ὀλισθήματος.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
  • Revelation 21:4‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.”
  • Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
  • Revelation 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
  • Isaiah 25:8He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
  • Psalms 37:24Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
  • Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
  • Psalms 94:18If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
  • Psalms 49:15But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
  • Judges 1:24and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 114:8 in some Bibles
  • 116:8 in most Bibles

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