Psalm 40:2
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2 He drew me up from the desolate pit,[a]
out of the miry bog,
and set my feet upon a rock,
making my steps secure.(A)
Footnotes
- 40.2 Cn: Heb pit of tumult
Psalm 37:23
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Psalm 27:5
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5 For he will hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will set me high on a rock.(A)
Psalm 119:133
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133 Keep my steps steady according to your promise,
and never let iniquity have dominion over me.(A)
Psalm 71:20
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20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.(A)
Psalm 69:2
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2 I sink in deep mire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood sweeps over me.(A)
Psalm 61:2
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2 From the end of the earth I call to you,
when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock
that is higher than I,(A)
Matthew 7:24-25
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Hearers and Doers
24 “Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.(A) 25 The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on rock.
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Jonah 2:5-6
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5 The waters closed in over me;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped around my head(A)
6 at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
O Lord my God.(B)
Psalm 69:14-15
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14 rescue me
from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies
and from the deep waters.(A)
15 Do not let the flood sweep over me
or the deep swallow me up
or the Pit close its mouth over me.(B)
Psalm 18:36
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36 You gave me a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip.
Acts 2:27-31
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27 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades
or let your Holy One experience corruption.(A)
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
29 “Fellow Israelites,[a] I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.(B) 30 Since he was a prophet, he knew that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would put one of his descendants on his throne.(C) 31 Foreseeing this, David[b] spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah,[c] saying,
‘He was not abandoned to Hades,
nor did his flesh experience corruption.’(D)
Zechariah 9:11
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11 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.(A)
Psalm 143:3
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3 For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing my life to the ground,
making me sit in darkness like those long dead.
Psalm 142:6-7
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6 Listen to my cry,
for I am brought very low.
Save me from my persecutors,
for they are too strong for me.(A)
7 Bring me out of prison,
so that I may give thanks to your name.
The righteous will surround me,
for you will deal bountifully with me.(B)
Psalm 86:13
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13 For great is your steadfast love toward me;
you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.(A)
Psalm 17:5
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5 My steps have held fast to your paths;
my feet have not slipped.(A)
Acts 2:24
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24 But God raised him up, having released him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.(A)
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Psalm 18:16-17
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16 He reached down from on high; he took me;
he drew me out of mighty waters.(A)
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy
and from those who hated me,
for they were too mighty for me.(B)
Jeremiah 38:6-12
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6 So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. Now there was no water in the cistern but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.(A)
Jeremiah Is Rescued by Ebed-melech
7 Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. The king happened to be sitting at the Benjamin Gate,(B) 8 So Ebed-melech left the king’s house and spoke to the king, 9 “My lord king, these men have acted wickedly in all they did to the prophet Jeremiah by throwing him into the cistern to die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”(C) 10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take three[a] men with you from here, and pull the prophet Jeremiah up from the cistern before he dies.” 11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe of[b] the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes. 12 Then Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, “Just put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did so.
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Psalm 116:3
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3 The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.(A)
Matthew 13:50
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50 and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.(A)
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Lamentations 3:53-55
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53 they flung me alive into a pit
and hurled stones on me;(A)
54 water closed over my head;
I said, “I am lost.”(B)
55 I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;(C)
Isaiah 24:22
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22 They will be gathered together
like prisoners in a pit;
they will be shut up in a prison,
and after many days they will be punished.(A)
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