Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
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Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
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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.
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(30-4) 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.
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Passages linked to Psalms 30:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 16:10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
- Psalms 86:13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- Psalms 28:1 To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
- Isaiah 38:17-18 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back. For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.
- Jonah 2:4-6 I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’ The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
- Psalms 40:1-2 I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
- Psalms 71:20 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.
- Job 33:19-22 He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones, so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food. His flesh is so consumed away that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out. Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
- Job 33:28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’
- Psalms 56:13 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.
- Psalms 116:8 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, that he escaped death most narrowly.
Meaning, that he escaped death most narrowly.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 30:3 O LORD, thou hast brought up my…
Psa 30:3 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.
Ver. 3. O Lord, thou hast brought up, &c.] Here he saith the same again as before; the better to set forth the greatness of the benefit, and so to excite himself to due thankfulness. The uttermost extremity of a calamity is to be acknowledged after we are delivered out of it, Isa 38:10.
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Thou hast kept me alive] Thou hast rescued me from instant death; and this I look upon as a resurrection from the dead.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave;…
Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave; my deliverance is a kind of resurrection from the grave, upon the very brink whereof I was.
Thou hast kept me alive: this he adds to explain the former phrase, which was ambiguous.
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To the pit, i.e. into the grave, which is oft called the pit, as Psa 28:1; 69:15; 88:4; Isa 38:17.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from…
O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave,.... When his life being in danger, was near unto it, Job 33:22; otherwise the soul dies not, nor does it lie and sleep in the grave; or "thou hast brought up my soul from hell" (m); that is, delivered him from those horrors of conscience and terrors of mind, by reason of sin, which were as hell itself unto him; see Psa 116:3;
thou hast kept me alive: preserved his corporeal life when in danger, and maintained his spiritual life; and quickened him by his word, under all his afflictions, and kept him from utter and black despair;
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that I should not go down to the pit; either of the grave or hell. There is in this clause a "Keri" and a "Cetib"; a marginal reading, and a textual writing: according to the latter it is, "from them that go down to the pit"; which some versions (n) follow; that is, thou hast preserved me from going along with them, and being where and as they are: our version follows the former; the sense is the same.
(m) "ab inferno", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth. (n) So Sept. V. L. Pagninus, Musculus, Gejerus, Michaelis, Ainsworth.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. Thou hast brought up my soul from…
Verse 3. Thou hast brought up my soul from the grave] I and my people were both about to be cut off; but thou hast spared us in mercy, and given us a most glorious respite.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain O, Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from…
O, Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave - My life; me. The meaning is, that he had been in imminent danger of death, and had been brought from the borders of the grave. The word here rendered “grave” is “Sheol” - a word which, properly used, commonly denotes the region of the dead; the underworld which is entered through the grave. Compare Isa 14:9, note; Psa 6:5, note.
Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit - More literally, “thou hast caused me to live from them which go down to the pit;” that is, thou hast distinguished me from them by keeping me alive. The word “pit” here means the same as the grave. See the notes at Psa 28:1.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The terms describe extreme danger.
The terms describe extreme danger.
soul--or, "myself."
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grave--literally, "hell," as in Psa 16:10.
hast kept me . . . pit--quickened or revived me from the state of dying (compare Psa 28:1).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3. Brought up… from the grave… the pit—The sweeping…
3. Brought up… from the grave… the pit—The sweeping pestilence had brought him and the nation to the grave’s mouth. See 2Sa_24:15-17
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. So desperate was his sickness that his recovery…
3. So desperate was his sickness that his recovery was as life from the dead, a veritable resurrection from the grave.
from the grave] R.V. from Sheol. See note on Psa_6:5. Cp. 1Sa_2:6.
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thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit] Better, thou hast restored me to life from among them that go down to the pit. He was already as good as dead, when Jehovah raised him up again. Cp. Psa_9:13; Psa_88:4 ff. This is the reading of the Kthîbh, which is supported by the LXX and Syr., and by Psa_28:1. The A.V. that I should not go down follows the Qrç, which is supported by the Targ. and Jer., but involves an anomalous grammatical form, and gives a less vigorous sense.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) Grave.—Sheôl (See Note to Psa_6:5.)
(3) Grave.—Sheôl (See Note to Psa_6:5.)
That I should not go down to the pit.—This follows a reading which is considered by modern scholars ungrammatical. The ordinary reading, rightly kept by the LXX. and Vulg., means from these going down to the pit, i.e., from the dead. (Comp. Psa_28:1.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from…
O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave; i.e. when I was on the verge of the grave, just ready to depart to the unseen world, thy interposition saved me, and brought me, as it were, back to life. Thou hast kept me alive. Lest the hyperbole of the preceding clause should be misunderstood, the writer appends a prosaic account of what had happened. God had "kept him alive" when he was in peril of death, and saved him, that he should not go down to the pit.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 3. O Lord, thou hast brought up my…
Ver. 3. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave. Mark, it is not "I hope so; "but it is, "Thou hast; thou hast; thou hast" three times over. David is quite sure, beyond a doubt, that God has done great things for him, whereof he is exceeding glad. He had descended to the brink of the sepulchre, and yet was restored to tell of the forbearance of God; nor was this all, he owned that nothing but grace had kept him from the lowest hell, and this made him doubly thankful. To be spared from the grave is much; to be delivered from the pit is more; hence there is growing cause for praise, since both deliverances are alone traceable to the glorious right hand of the Lord, who is the only preserver of life, and the only Redeemer of our souls from hell.
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Ver. 3. Upbringing and preservation, two choice mercies; made the more illustrious by two terrible evils, grave, and pit; traced immediately to the Lord, thou hast.
Psalms 30:4*
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Heb. "Sheol," (See Scofield "Hab 2:5").
grave
Heb. "Sheol," (See Scofield "Hab 2:5").
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