Be Merciful to Me, O God
Psalms 56:13
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
- KJV
- For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
- WEB
- 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.
- ASV
- For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?
- LSV
- For You have delivered my soul from death, || Do You not [keep] my feet from falling? To habitually walk before God in the light of the living!
- YLT
- For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!
- DBY
- For thou hast delivered my soul from death; [wilt thou] not [keep] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?Elohim
- DRC55:13
- Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.
- GNV
- For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, and also my feete from falling, that I may walke before God in the light of the liuing.
- JPS56:14
- For thou hast delivered my soul from death; hast Thou not delivered my feet from stumbling? that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
- LXXE55:14
- For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from sliding, that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living.
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Original-language editions
- WLC56:14
- כִּ֤י הִצַּ֪לְתָּ נַפְשִׁ֡י מִמָּוֶת֮ הֲלֹ֥א רַגְלַ֗י מִ֫דֶּ֥חִי לְ֭הִֽתְהַלֵּךְ לִפְנֵ֣י אֱלֹהִ֑ים בְּ֝א֗וֹר הַֽחַיִּֽים׃KJV:Ps.56.13
- LXX-Br55:14
- Ὅτι ἐῤῥύσω τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐκ θανάτου, καὶ τοὺς πόδας μου ἐξ ὀλισθήματος, τοῦ εὐαρεστῆσαι ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν φωτὶ ζώντων.
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Jonath-elem-rechokimMichtamGathSongDeath, NaturalBackslidersThankfulnessDavidPsalms, Book ofAfflictions and Adversities
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 116:8–9For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
- Job 33:30to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.
- Revelation 21:23–24And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp. By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their…
- Psalms 145:14The LORD upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
- Psalms 49:15But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
- Psalms 17:5My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:10and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
- Isaiah 2:5Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
- Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Psalms 86:12–13I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your name forever. For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- Isaiah 38:3saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Psalms 94:18If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
- John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- John 12:35–36Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.…
- James 5:20consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
- Hebrews 2:15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 56:14 in some Bibles
- 56:13 in most Bibles