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)
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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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)
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 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)
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)
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 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.
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