Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. New Living Translation For you have rescued me from death; you have kept my feet from slipping. So now I can walk in your presence, O God, in your life-giving light. English Standard Version For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. Berean Standard Bible For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. King James Bible For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? New King James Version For You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living? New American Standard Bible For You have saved my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living. NASB 1995 For You have delivered my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living. NASB 1977 For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living. Legacy Standard Bible For You have delivered my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living. Amplified Bible For You have rescued my soul from death, Yes, and my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of life. Christian Standard Bible For you rescued me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life. Holman Christian Standard Bible For You delivered me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life. American Standard Version For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living? Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because you have delivered my soul from death and my feet from slipping, that I may be pleasing before you, God, in the land of the living. Brenton Septuagint Translation For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from sliding, that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living. Contemporary English Version You protected me from death and kept me from stumbling, so that I would please you and follow the light that leads to life. Douay-Rheims Bible Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living. English Revised Version For thou hast delivered my soul from death: hast thou not delivered my feet from falling? that I may walk before God in the light of the living. GOD'S WORD® Translation You have rescued me from death. You have kept my feet from stumbling so that I could walk in your presence, in the light of life. Good News Translation because you have rescued me from death and kept me from defeat. And so I walk in the presence of God, in the light that shines on the living. International Standard Version For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living! JPS Tanakh 1917 For thou hast delivered my soul from death; Hast Thou not delivered my feet from stumbling? That I may walk before God in the light of the living? Literal Standard Version For You have delivered my soul from death, | Do You not [keep] my feet from falling? To habitually walk before God in the light of the living! Majority Standard Bible For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. New American Bible For you have snatched me from death, kept my feet from stumbling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living. NET Bible when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life. New Revised Standard Version For you have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of life. New Heart English Bible 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. Webster's Bible Translation For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt thou not deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? World English Bible 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. Young's Literal Translation For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living! Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Be Merciful to Me, O God…12Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You. 13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. Cross References Job 33:30 to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life. Psalm 33:19 to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. Psalm 49:15 But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah Psalm 49:19 he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day. Psalm 68:20 Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death. Psalm 86:13 For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol. Psalm 107:20 He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit. Treasury of Scripture For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? For Psalm 86:12,13 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore… Psalm 116:8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 2 Corinthians 1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; wilt Psalm 17:5 Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not. Psalm 94:18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. Psalm 145:14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. walk Psalm 116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. Isaiah 2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. the light Job 33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 12:35,36 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth… Jump to Previous Al-Tash-Heth Cave Chief David Death Deliver Delivered Falling Feet Fled Habitually Indeed Light Michtam Musician Prevented Psalm Saul Soul Stumbling Walk WiltJump to Next Al-Tash-Heth Cave Chief David Death Deliver Delivered Falling Feet Fled Habitually Indeed Light Michtam Musician Prevented Psalm Saul Soul Stumbling Walk WiltPsalm 56 1. David, praying to God in confidence of his word, complains of his enemies,9. He professes his confidence in God's word, and promises to praise him (13) Wilt thou not deliver?--Better, hast thou not delivered? From falling.--Literally, front a thrust. Verse 13. - For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling; rather, hast thou not delivered (Revised Version); or, surely thou hast delivered (Professor Cheyne). The psalmist views his entire deliverance as accomplished; nothing remains to be asked for. That I may walk before God in the light of the living; i.e. that henceforth I may be free from trouble, and walk before God in the clear daylight, no longer dwelling in darkness, but in "the light of life" (comp. Job 33:30; John 8:12).
Hebrew Forכִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction You have delivered הִצַּ֪לְתָּ (hiṣ·ṣal·tā) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver my soul נַפְשִׁ֡י (nap̄·šî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion from death, מִמָּוֶת֮ (mim·mā·weṯ) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin and my feet רַגְלַ֗י (raḡ·lay) Noun - fdc | first person common singular Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda from stumbling, מִ֫דֶּ֥חִי (mid·de·ḥî) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1762: A push, a fall that I may walk לְ֭הִֽתְהַלֵּךְ (lə·hiṯ·hal·lêḵ) Preposition-l | Verb - Hitpael - Infinitive construct Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk before לִפְנֵ֣י (lip̄·nê) Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct Strong's 6440: The face God אֱלֹהִ֑ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative in the light בְּ֝א֗וֹר (bə·’ō·wr) Preposition | Noun - common singular construct Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary of life. הַֽחַיִּֽים׃ (ha·ḥay·yîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life Links Psalm 56:13 NIVPsalm 56:13 NLT Psalm 56:13 ESV Psalm 56:13 NASB Psalm 56:13 KJV Psalm 56:13 BibleApps.com Psalm 56:13 Biblia Paralela Psalm 56:13 Chinese Bible Psalm 56:13 French Bible Psalm 56:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 56:13 For you have delivered my soul (Psalm Ps Psa.) |