Psalms 86:13

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
for your love for me is very great. You have rescued me from the depths of death.

English Revised Version
For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest pit.

Update Bible Version
For great is your loving-kindness toward me; And you have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

New Century Version
You have great love for me. You have saved me from death.

New English Translation
For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.

Webster's Bible Translation
For great [is] thy mercy towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

World English Bible
For your lovingkindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Amplified Bible
For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me; And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

English Standard Version
For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thi merci is greet on me; and thou deliueridist my soule fro the lower helle.

Berean Standard Bible
For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

Contemporary English Version
Your love for me is so great that you protected me from death and the grave.

American Standard Version
For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Bible in Basic English
For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.

Complete Jewish Bible
For your grace toward me is so great! You have rescued me from the lowest part of Sh'ol.

Darby Translation
For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Easy-to-Read Version
You have such great love for me. You save me from the place of death.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For great is Thy mercy toward me; and Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest nether-world.

King James Version (1611)
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest hell.

New Life Bible
For Your loving-kindness toward me is great. And You have saved my soul from the bottom of the grave.

New Revised Standard
For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For great is thy mercie toward me, & thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest graue.

George Lamsa Translation
For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of hell.

Good News Translation
How great is your constant love for me! You have saved me from the grave itself.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, thy lovingkindness, is great towards me, And thou hast rescued my soul from Hades beneath.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(85-13) For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Revised Standard Version
For great is thy steadfast love toward me; thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For great is thy mercy towarde me: and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest [part of] hell.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For thy mercy is great toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Christian Standard Bible®
For your faithful love for me is great,and you rescue my life from the depths of Sheol.

Hebrew Names Version
For your lovingkindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest She'ol.

Lexham English Bible
because your loyal love is great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol below.

Literal Translation
For Your mercy toward me is great; and You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Young's Literal Translation
For Thy kindness [is] great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For greate is thy mercy towarde me, thou hast delyuered my soule from ye nethermost hell.

New American Standard Bible
For Your graciousness toward me is great, And You have saved my soul from the depths of Sheol.

New King James Version
For great is Your mercy toward me, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Your lovingkindness toward me is great,And You have delivered my soul from Sheol below.

Contextual Overview

⁸ Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. ⁹ All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. ¹⁰ For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. ¹¹ Teach me thy way, O Lord ; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. ¹² I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. ¹³ For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. ¹⁴ O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. ¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. ¹⁶ O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. ¹⁷ Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord , hast holpen me, and comforted me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

great: Psalms 57:10, Psalms 103:8-12, Psalms 108:4, Luke 1:58

and thou: Psalms 16:10, Psalms 56:13, Psalms 88:6, Psalms 116:8, Job 33:18, Job 33:22, Job 33:24, Job 33:28, Isaiah 38:17, Jonah 2:3-6, 1 Thessalonians 1:10

hell: or, grave

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:8 - with an high hand Deuteronomy 32:22 - lowest 2 Chronicles 1:8 - Thou has showed Psalms 6:4 - deliver Psalms 9:13 - thou Psalms 18:5 - The sorrows Psalms 30:3 - brought Psalms 40:2 - brought Psalms 49:15 - the grave Psalms 51:14 - tongue Psalms 59:16 - sing aloud Psalms 63:9 - go Psalms 66:20 - General Psalms 71:20 - shalt bring Psalms 89:1 - I will Psalms 103:1 - all that Psalms 119:7 - I will Psalms 119:156 - are thy Psalms 138:1 - I will praise Hosea 13:14 - ransom Jonah 2:2 - out Luke 16:23 - in hell Acts 2:27 - leave

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For great is thy mercy toward me,.... Both in things temporal and spiritual; an instance of which follows:

and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell; from a very distressed and disconsolate condition, being almost in despair, under a deep sense of sin, and a fearful apprehension of the wrath of God, as, particularly, when he was charged by Nathan; or from hell itself, and the severest punishment in it; from the second and eternal death, which every man is deserving of, and are only delivered from by the grace of God, and blood of Christ: this shows the sense the psalmist had of the just demerit of sin, and his thankfulness for deliverance from it; see

Psalms 56:13. Kimchi interprets it of the grave; but says, there are some that interpret it of the judgment, or condemnation of hell: such who have escaped great dangers in long and perilous journeys, or have been delivered from threatening diseases, are said to be saved from hell r.

r Vide Heraclit. de Incredib. c. 21. p. 86.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For great is thy mercy toward me - In respect to me; or, Thou hast manifested great mercy to me; to wit, in past times. He makes use of this now as an argument or reason why God should interpose again.

(a) He had shown on former occasions that he had power to save;

(b) the fact that he had thus treated him as his friend was a reason why he should now befriend him.

And thou hast delivered my soul - My life. The meaning is, that he had kept him alive in times of imminent danger. At the same time David could say, as every child of God can say, that God had delivered his soul in the strict and proper sense of the term - from sin, and death, and hell itself.

From the lowest hell - Margin, grave; Hebrew, שׁאול sh^e'ôl; Greek, ᾅδης Hadēs. See the word explained in the notes at Isaiah 14:9. Compare the notes at Job 10:21-22. The word rendered “lowest” means simply under, or beneath: the grave or hades beneath. The idea of lowest, or the superlative degree, is not necessarily implied in the word. The idea of the grave as deep, or as under us, however, is implied, and the psalmist means to say that he had been saved from that deep dwelling-place - from the abode of departed spirits, to which the dead descend under ground. The meaning is, that he had been kept alive; but the greatness of the mercy is designed to be set forth by having before the mind a vivid idea of the darkness, the horror, and the gloom of the world to which the dead descend, and where they dwell.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 86:13. Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. — This must mean more than the grave; a hell below hell-a place of perdition for the soul, as the grave is a place of corruption for the body.