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King James Version

Psalms 116:8

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Disease;   Testimony;   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Deliverance;   Promises, Divine;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Deliverance;   Sorrow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted Saints;   Feet, the;   Steadfastness;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Life;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dedication, Feast of the;   Hallel;   Hallelujah;   Jonah;   Joy;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hallel ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hosanna;   Psalms the book of;   Tabernacles feast of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tears;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;
Geneva Bible (1587)
Because thou hast deliuered my soule from death, mine eyes from teares, and my feete from falling.
Christian Standard Bible®
For you, Lord, rescued me from death,my eyes from tears,my feet from stumbling.
Hebrew Names Version
For you have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord, you saved my soul from death. You stopped my tears. You kept me from falling.
Amplified Bible
For You have rescued my life from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from stumbling and falling.
American Standard Version
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.
Contemporary English Version
You, Lord , have saved my life from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yes, you have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears and my feet from falling.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from stumbling.
King James Version (1611)
For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, mine eyes from teares, and my feete from falling.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For he has delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
English Revised Version
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Berean Standard Bible
For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
Lexham English Bible
For you have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
Literal Translation
For You have delivered my soul from death, my eye from tears, my feet from stumbling.
New Century Version
Lord , you saved me from death. You stopped my eyes from crying; you kept me from being defeated.
New English Translation
Yes, Lord , you rescued my life from death, and kept my feet from stumbling.
New King James Version
For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.
New Living Translation
He has saved me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
New Life Bible
For You, O Lord, have saved my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For thou hast rescued my soul from death, - mine eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(114-8) For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
George Lamsa Translation
For he has delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling.
Good News Translation
The Lord saved me from death; he stopped my tears and kept me from defeat.
New American Standard Bible
For You have rescued my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from stumbling.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For [thou O Lorde] hast deliuered my soule from death: myne eyes from teares, and my feete from fallyng.
New Revised Standard
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.
Darby Translation
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he hath delyuered my soule fro deth; myn iyen fro wepingis, my feet fro fallyng doun.
Young's Literal Translation
For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, my feet from overthrowing.
World English Bible
For you have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.
Revised Standard Version
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;
Update Bible Version
For you have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, [And] my feet from falling.
Webster's Bible Translation
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, [and] my feet from falling.
Bible in Basic English
You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And why? thou hast delyuered my soule from death, myne eyes from teares, and my fete from fallinge.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For You have rescued my soul from death, My eyes from tears, My feet from stumbling.
Legacy Standard Bible
For You have rescued my soul from death,My eyes from tears,My feet from stumbling.

Contextual Overview

1 I love the Lord , because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord ; O Lord , I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord , and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. 7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For thou: Psalms 56:13, Psalms 86:13

mine: Isaiah 25:8, Isaiah 38:5, Revelation 7:17, Revelation 21:4

and my feet: Psalms 37:24, Psalms 94:18, Judges 1:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 6:4 - deliver Psalms 6:8 - for Psalms 30:3 - brought Psalms 73:2 - feet Isaiah 38:11 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For thou hast delivered my soul from death,.... From a corporeal death, when his life was in danger, surrounded by Saul's army, in the hand of the Philistines at Gath, and when his son rebelled against him; and from a spiritual death in regeneration, which is a passing from death to life; and from an eternal death, the just wages of sin: and not only so, but even

mine eyes from tears; they were sometimes full of, and shed in great plenty; he watered his couch with them; and especially when absent from the worship of the Lord, and without his presence, which his enemies sometimes reproached him with; and particularly when he fled before his rebellious son, and at the death of him; but God dried up all his tears; see Psalms 6:6. Many are the occasions of the saints weeping as they pass through the valley of "Baca", but God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.

And my feet from falling through a "push" l, by an enemy, so as to fall; the people of God are liable to falling, both into sin and into calamity; it is the Lord only that keeps them; and which they may expect from their interest in his love, covenant, and promises, and from their being in the hands of Christ; see Psalms 56:13.

l מדחי "ab impulsu", Montanus; "ab impulsione", Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thou hast delivered my soul from death - My life. Thou hast saved me from death. This is such language as would be used by one who had been dangerously ill, and who had been restored again to health.

Mine eyes from tears - Tears which he had shed in his sickness, and in the apprehension of dying. It may refer to tears shed on other occasions, but it is most natural to refer it to this. Compare the notes at Psalms 6:6.

And my feet from falling - From stumbling. That is, he had not, as it were, fallen by the way, and been rendered unable to pursue the journey of life. All this seems to refer to one occasion - to a time of dangerous illness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 116:8. Thou hast delivered my soul from death — Thou hast rescued my life from the destruction to which it was exposed.

Mine eyes from tears — Thou hast turned my sorrow into joy.

My feet from falling. — Thou hast taken me out of the land of snares and pitfalls, and brought me into a plain path. How very near does our ancient mother tongue come to this: - [Anglo-Saxon]. For thou he nerode sawle mine of deathe, eapan mine of tearum; fet mine of slide. And this language is but a little improved in the old Psalter:-

For he toke my saule fra dede; my eghen fra teres; my fete fra slippyng.


 
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