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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.

KJV

Inclina ad me aurem tuam ; accelera ut eruas me. Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, et in domum refugii, ut salvum me facias :

Vulgate

κλῖνον πρὸς μὲ τὸ οὖς σου, τὰχυνον τοῦ ἐξελέσθαι με· γενοῦ μοι εἰς θεὸν ὑπερασπιστήν, καὶ εἰς οἶκον καταφυγῆς τοῦ σῶσαί με.

LXX

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

ASV

יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהָ֑/י שִׁוַּ֥עְתִּי אֵ֝לֶ֗י/ךָ וַ/תִּרְפָּאֵֽ/נִי

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
ם
m
verb · 69×
שִׁוַּ֖עְתִּי
shv'ty
verb · 21×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
  • Isa 38:17 — 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.
  • Isa 38:17 — 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.
  • Jonah 2:4 — Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
  • Jonah 2:6 — 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.
  • Ps 9:13 — Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
  • Ps 16:10 — For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
  • Ps 28:1 — 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.
  • Ps 40:1 — I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
  • Ps 71:20 — Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
  • Ps 86:13 — For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  • Ps 86:13 — For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
  • Zech 9:11 — As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.