The LORD Is My Rock
Psalms 18:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
- KJV
- He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.many: or, great
- WEB
- He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
- ASV
- He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
- LSV
- He sends from above—He takes me, || He draws me out of many waters.
- YLT
- He sendeth from above — He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters.
- DBY
- He reached forth from above, he took me, he drew me out of great waters:
- DRC17:17
- He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.
- GNV
- He hath sent downe from aboue and taken mee: hee hath drawen mee out of many waters.
- JPS18:17
- He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
- LXXE17:17
- He sent from on high and took me, he drew me to himself out of many waters.
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Original-language editions
- WLC18:17
- יִשְׁלַ֣ח מִ֭מָּרוֹם יִקָּחֵ֑נִי יַֽ֝מְשֵׁ֗נִי מִמַּ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃KJV:Ps.18.16
- LXX-Br17:17
- Ἐξαπέστειλεν ἐξ ὕψους καὶ ἔλαβέ με, προσελάβετό με ἐξ ὑδάτων πολλῶν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- 2 Samuel 22:17He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
- Psalms 144:7Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
- Psalms 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
- Jonah 2:5–6The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head. To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my…
- Psalms 18:43You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
- Psalms 40:1–3I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry. He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth,…
- Exodus 2:10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
- Psalms 32:6Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
- Revelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 18:17 in some Bibles
- 18:16 in most Bibles