You Turned My Mourning into Dancing
Psalms 30:3
In 11 translations
- BSB
- O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
- KJV
- O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- WEB
- Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.Sheol is the place of the dead.
- ASV
- O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- LSV
- YHWH, You have brought up my soul from Sheol, || You have kept me alive, || From going down [to] the pit.
- YLT
- Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down [to] the pit.
- DBY
- Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.
- DRC29:4
- Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.
- GNV
- O Lord, thou hast brought vp my soule out of the graue: thou hast reuiued me from them that goe downe into the pit.
- JPS30:4
- O LORD, Thou broughtest up my soul from the nether-world; Thou didst keep me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- LXXE29:4
- O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from Hades, thou hast delivered me from among them that go down to the pit.
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- Written (Ketiv): מִיּוֹרְדֵי (“from [those who] go down”). Read aloud (Qere): מִיָּֽרְדִי (“from going down my”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads מִיָּֽורְדִי־; read aloud (Qere) reads מִיָּֽרְדִי (“from going down my”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC30:4
- יְֽהוָ֗ה הֶֽעֱלִ֣יתָ מִן־שְׁא֣וֹל נַפְשִׁ֑י חִ֝יִּיתַ֗נִי מיורדי־בֽוֹר׃KJV:Ps.30.3Read aloud as (qere): מִיָּֽרְדִי
- LXX-Br29:4
- Κύριε, ἀνήγαγες ἐξ ᾅδου τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἔσωσάς με ἀπὸ τῶν καταβαινόντων εἰς λάκκον.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
- Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- Isaiah 38:17–18Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those…
- Psalms 28:1To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
- Jonah 2:4–6At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’ The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my…
- Psalms 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
- Psalms 40:1–2I 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.
- 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.
- Job 33:19–22A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones, so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food. His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude. He…
- Job 33:28He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
- Psalms 116:8For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 30:4 in some Bibles
- 30:3 in most Bibles