Psalms 31:8

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and have not handed me over to the enemy.You have set my feet in a spacious place.

Hebrew Names Version
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

King James Version
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

English Standard Version
and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

New Century Version
You have not handed me over to my enemies but have set me in a safe place.

New English Translation
You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.

Amplified Bible
And You have not given me into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.

New American Standard Bible
And You have not handed me over to the enemy; You have set my feet in a large place.

World English Bible
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou hast not shut me vp in the hand of the enemie, but hast set my feete at large.

Legacy Standard Bible
And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy;You have set my feet in a large place.

Berean Standard Bible
You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

Contemporary English Version
You kept me from the hands of my enemies, and you set me free.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will rejoice and be glad in your grace, for you see my affliction, you know how distressed I am.

Darby Translation
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.

Easy-to-Read Version
You will not let my enemies take me. You will free me from their traps.

George Lamsa Translation
And thou hast not surrendered me into the hand of my enemies; thou hast established my feet in tranquility.

Good News Translation
You have not let my enemies capture me; you have given me freedom to go where I wish.

Lexham English Bible
And you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a broad place.

Literal Translation
and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I will be glad and reioyse in thy mercy: for thou hast considred my trouble, thou hast knowne my soule in aduersite.

American Standard Version
And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.

Bible in Basic English
And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will be glad and rejoice in Thy lovingkindness;

King James Version (1611)
And hast not shut me vp into the hand of the enemie: thou hast set my feete in a large roome.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast not shut me vp into the hande of the enemie: [but] hast set my feete in a large roome.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou hast not shut me up into the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a wide place.

English Revised Version
And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a large place.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou closidist not me togidere withynne the hondis of the enemy; thou hast sett my feet in a large place.

Update Bible Version
And you have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a large place.

Webster's Bible Translation
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room.

New King James Version
And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a wide place.

New Living Translation
You have not handed me over to my enemies but have set me in a safe place.

New Life Bible
You have not given me into the hand of those who hate me. You have set my feet in a large place.

New Revised Standard
and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And hast not shut me up in the hand of the foe, Thou hast given standing, in a roomy place, unto my feet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(30-9) And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

Revised Standard Version
and hast not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a broad place.

Young's Literal Translation
And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a large place.

Contextual Overview

¹A David Psalm I run to you, God ; I run for dear life. Don't let me down! Take me seriously this time! Get down on my level and listen, and please—no procrastination! Your granite cave a hiding place, your high cliff aerie a place of safety. ³You're my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb. Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide. Free me from hidden traps; I want to hide in you. I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down. ⁶I hate all this silly religion, but you, God , I trust. I'm leaping and singing in the circle of your love; you saw my pain, you disarmed my tormentors, You didn't leave me in their clutches but gave me room to breathe. Be kind to me, God — I'm in deep, deep trouble again. I've cried my eyes out; I feel hollow inside. My life leaks away, groan by groan; my years fade out in sighs. My troubles have worn me out, turned my bones to powder. To my enemies I'm a monster; I'm ridiculed by the neighbors. My friends are horrified; they cross the street to avoid me. They want to blot me from memory, forget me like a corpse in a grave, discard me like a broken dish in the trash. The street-talk gossip has me "criminally insane"! Behind locked doors they plot how to ruin me for good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shut me: Psalms 88:8, Deuteronomy 32:30, 1 Samuel 17:46, 1 Samuel 24:18, 1 Samuel 26:8, Job 16:11, Isaiah 19:4, *marg.

set: Psalms 4:1, Psalms 18:19, Job 36:16

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 23:12 - deliver 2 Samuel 18:28 - delivered up 2 Samuel 22:20 - brought Job 3:23 - hedged in Job 11:10 - shut up Psalms 27:12 - will Psalms 37:33 - will not Psalms 41:11 - because Psalms 118:5 - set me Psalms 142:7 - my soul Proverbs 6:3 - when Isaiah 33:17 - that is very far off Isaiah 33:18 - heart Ezekiel 34:14 - feed them Obadiah 1:14 - delivered up

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy,.... When in Keilah, in the wilderness of Ziph, and Maon, and encompassed about by Saul and his army, 1 Samuel 23:7; nor does the Lord suffer his people to be shut up under the power of sin and Satan, so that they cannot come forth in the exercise of grace, and the discharge of duty: but he brings their souls out of prison, that they may praise his name;

thou hast set my feet in a large room; at full liberty from his enemies; Saul and his army being called off from pursuing him, by tidings of an invasion by the Philistines, 1 Samuel 23:27; and this is the case of the saints when they are brought to Christ, to walk by faith at large on him; when grace is drawn forth into exercise, and spiritual knowledge is increased, and they are delivered from their enemies; or, however, can look upon them as conquered ones, and are sure of victory over them, and at last of an entire deliverance from them; see Psalms 4:1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy - Hast not delivered me into his hand, or into his power. See the margin 1 Samuel 17:46; 1Sa 24:18; 1 Samuel 26:8.

Thou hast set my feet in a large room - In a large place. Thou hast made me free, or set me at liberty. See Psalms 4:1, note; Psalms 18:19, note; Psalms 18:36, note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 31:8. Thou hast set my foot in a large room. — Many hair-breadth escapes David had for his life; at that time especially when, playing before Saul, the furious king took a spear and endeavoured to pierce him through the body, but he escaped and got to the deserts. Here God, who had saved his life, set his feet in a large room. The seventh and eighth verses speak of what God had done previously for him.