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Tried but Trusting

Psalms 86:13

In 11 translations

BSB
For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
KJV
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.hell: or, grave
WEB
For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.Sheol is the place of the dead.
ASV
For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
LSV
For Your kindness [is] great toward me, || And You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
YLT
For Thy kindness [is] great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
DBY
For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
DRC85:13
For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.
GNV
For great is thy mercie toward me, and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest graue.
JPS
For great is Thy mercy toward me; and Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest nether-world.
LXXE85:13
For thy mercy is great toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

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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
כִּֽי־חַ֭סְדְּךָ גָּד֣וֹל עָלָ֑י וְהִצַּ֥לְתָּ נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י מִשְּׁא֥וֹל תַּחְתִּיָּֽה׃
LXX-Br85:13
Ὅτι τὸ ἔλεός σου μέγα ἐπʼ ἐμὲ, καὶ ἐῤῥύσω τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐξ ᾅδου κατωτάτου.

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 103:8–12The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to…
  • Psalms 116:8For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
  • Psalms 57:10For Your loving devotion reaches to the heavens, and Your faithfulness to the clouds.
  • 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.
  • 1 Thessalonians 1:10and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
  • Luke 1:58Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
  • Job 33:28He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
  • Psalms 30:3O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.
  • Job 33:24to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
  • Psalms 16:10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
  • Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
  • Isaiah 38:17Surely 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.
  • Job 33:18to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
  • Psalms 108:4For Your loving devotion extends beyond the heavens, and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
  • Job 33:22He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
  • Jonah 2:3–6For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me. At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more…

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