Psalms 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.

O LORD {H3068}, thou hast brought up {H5927} my soul {H5315} from the grave {H7585}: thou hast kept me alive {H2421}, that I should not go down {H3381}{H3381} to the pit {H953}.

ADONAI, you lifted me up from Sh'ol; you kept me alive when I was sinking into a pit.

O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 86:13 (5 votes)

    For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

  • Psalms 16:10 (5 votes)

    For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

  • Psalms 28:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

  • Isaiah 38:17 (4 votes)

    Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

  • Isaiah 38:18 (4 votes)

    For the grave cannot praise thee, death can [not] celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

  • Jonah 2:4 (3 votes)

    Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

  • Jonah 2:6 (3 votes)

    I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars [was] about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.