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Be My Rock of Refuge

Psalms 71:20

In 11 translations

BSB
Though 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.
KJV
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
WEB
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.
ASV
Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
LSV
Because You have showed me many and sad distresses, || You turn back—You revive me, || And from the depths of the earth, || You turn back—You bring me up.
YLT
Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back — Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back — Thou bringest me up.
DBY
Thou, who hast shewn us many and sore troubles, wilt revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth;
DRC70:20
How great troubles hast thou shewn me, many and grievous: and turning thou hast brought me to life, and hast brought me back again from the depths of the earth:
GNV
Which hast shewed me great troubles and aduersities, but thou wilt returne, and reuiue me, and wilt come againe, and take mee vp from the depth of the earth.
JPS
Thou, who hast made me to see many and sore troubles, wilt quicken me again, and bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
LXXE70:20
What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth.

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  • Written (Ketiv): הִרְאִיתַנוּ (“you have made see us”). Read aloud (Qere): הִרְאִיתַ֨נִי (“you have made see me”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
  • Written (Ketiv): תְּחַיֵּינוּ (“you will preserve alive us”). Read aloud (Qere): תְּחַיֵּ֑ינִי (“you will preserve alive me”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
  • Leningrad Codex reads הִרְאִיתַ֨נִו׀; read aloud (Qere) reads הִרְאִיתַ֨נִי (“you have made see me”).
  • Leningrad Codex reads תְּחַיֵּ֑ינִו; read aloud (Qere) reads תְּחַיֵּ֑ינִי (“you will preserve alive me”).

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

WLC
אֲשֶׁ֤ר הראיתנו ׀ צָר֥וֹת רַבּ֗וֹת וְרָ֫ע֥וֹת תָּשׁ֥וּב תחיינו וּֽמִתְּהֹמ֥וֹת הָ֝אָ֗רֶץ תָּשׁ֥וּב תַּעֲלֵֽנִי׃Read aloud as (qere): הִרְאִיתַ֨נִיRead aloud as (qere): תְּחַיֵּ֑ינִי
LXX-Br70:20
Ὅσας ἔδειξάς μοι θλίψεις πολλὰς καὶ κακάς; καὶ ἐπιστρέψας ἐζωοποίησάς με, καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἀβύσσων τῆς γῆς πάλιν ἀνήγαγές με.

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 138:7If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.
  • Hosea 6:1–2Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may…
  • Psalms 60:3You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.
  • Psalms 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
  • Ezekiel 37:12–13Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, My people, will know…
  • 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,…
  • Psalms 80:18Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.
  • Psalms 119:25My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
  • Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
  • Isaiah 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
  • Psalms 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
  • Psalms 88:6–18You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths. Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am…
  • 2 Samuel 12:11This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
  • Ephesians 4:9What does “He ascended” mean, except that He also descended to the lower parts of the earth?
  • Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
  • Psalms 66:10–12For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver. You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs. You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.

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