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Psalms 40:2
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He brought me up from a desolate pit,out of the muddy clay,and set my feet on a rock,making my steps secure.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
He lifted me out of the pit of destruction, out of the sticky mud. He stood me on a rock and made my feet steady.
He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.
He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud; And He set my feet on a rock, making my footsteps firm.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Hee brought mee also out of the horrible pit, out of the myrie clay, and set my feete vpon the rocke, and ordered my goings.
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,And He set my feet upon a high rock, He established my steps.
He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
and pulled me from a lonely pit full of mud and mire. You let me stand on a rock with my feet firm,
I waited patiently for Adonai , till he turned toward me and heard my cry.
And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:
He lifted me out of the grave. He lifted me from that muddy place. He picked me up, put me on solid ground, and kept my feet from slipping.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the mire of destruction, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings.
He pulled me out of a dangerous pit, out of the deadly quicksand. He set me safely on a rock and made me secure.
And so he brought me up from the roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.
And He drew me up from the pit of tumult, out of the miry clay; He lifted my feet on a rock; He directed my steps.
He brought me out of the horrible pitte, out of the myre and claye: he set my fete vpo the rocke, and ordred my goinges.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
He brought me vp also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirie clay, and set my feete vpon a rock, and established my goings.
He brought me also out of an horrible pyt, out of the dirtie mire: and set my feete vpon a rocke, and directed my goynges.
And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay; and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
And he herde my preieris; and he ledde out me fro the lake of wretchidnesse, and fro the filthe of draft. And he ordeynede my feet on a stoon; and he dresside my goyngis.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings.
He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along.
He brought me up out of the hole of danger, out of the mud and clay. He set my feet on a rock, making my feet sure.
He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
So he brought me up, Out of the destroying pit, Out of the swampy mire, - And set, upon a cliff, my feet, Making firm my steps:
(39-3) And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.
He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.
And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
brought: Psalms 18:16, Psalms 18:17, Psalms 71:20, Psalms 86:13, Psalms 116:3, Psalms 142:6, Psalms 142:7, Psalms 143:3, Isaiah 24:22, Jonah 2:5, Jonah 2:6, Zechariah 9:11, Acts 2:24, Acts 2:27-31
horrible pit: Heb. pit of noise, Matthew 13:50
the miry: Psalms 69:2, Psalms 69:14, Psalms 69:15, Jeremiah 38:6-12, Lamentations 3:53-55
set: Psalms 27:5, Psalms 61:2, Matthew 7:24, Matthew 7:25
established: Psalms 17:5, Psalms 18:36, Psalms 37:23, Psalms 119:133
Reciprocal: Genesis 37:24 - the pit 1 Samuel 30:6 - David Job 14:14 - all the days Job 33:24 - Deliver Job 33:30 - To bring Psalms 6:9 - hath heard Psalms 7:9 - but Psalms 18:19 - brought Psalms 26:12 - My Psalms 30:3 - brought Psalms 30:7 - made Psalms 37:24 - Though Psalms 37:31 - steps Psalms 66:12 - but thou Psalms 88:6 - lowest Psalms 130:1 - Out of Proverbs 4:26 - let all thy ways be established Proverbs 13:12 - when Isaiah 38:17 - in love to my soul delivered it from the pit Lamentations 3:55 - General Acts 9:11 - for
Cross-References
And Shimei the Ramathite was over the vineyards, and Zabdi the Shiphmite was over the produce of the vineyards for the supply of wine.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; With the remainder of wrath You shall gird Yourself.
As messengers of death is the king's wrath, But a wise man will appease it.
The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
A man of great wrath will suffer punishment; For if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.
Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, But who is able to stand before jealousy?
Now Herod had been very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus the king's personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was supplied with food by the king's country.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit,.... Which, with the following phrase,
out of the miry clay, expresses the state and condition Christ was in at the time of his bloody sweat, his crucifixion, and his lying in "sheol", the pit or grave, sometimes rendered hell, which these figurative phrases fitly signify; when it is observed, that he was made sin, and had the sins of all his people on him; and, as the type of Joshua, was clothed with their filthy garments; he might be truly said to be in the miry clay; and also that he was made a curse for them, and bore the wrath of God in their room and stead; and was forsaken by his God and Father, and so endured both the punishment of loss and sense, and what was tantamount to the sufferings of the damned in hell; see
Psalms 69:1; to which may be added the noisy insults of malignant men, and the infernal fiends, who surrounded him on the cross; when he was in an horrible, or "noisy pit", as the words may be rendered k, the allusion being to subterraneous caverns or pits, in which the falls of water make so horrible a noise as is intolerable; or to deep pits, into which anything cast makes a great sound: and the issue of all this was, that he was laid in the pit of the grave, and held under the power and with the cords of death; from all which he was delivered when he was raised from the dead, justified in the Spirit, and glorified in the human nature by his God and Father;
and set my feet upon a rock; on Mount Zion in heaven, whither he was carried up after his resurrection; where he will remain until his second coming, being set down at the right hand of God, in a most stable, firm, and unalterable state, as well as an honourable one; for he will die no more, and death shall no more have dominion over him;
[and] established my goings; in treading the path of life, which was shown him at his resurrection; in passing through the air, the territory of Satan, at his ascension; and in his entrance into his glory, and making his way to his Father's right hand and throne.
k מבור שאון "e cisterna sonitus", Pagninus, Montanus; "strepitus", Vatablus, the Targum Kimchi and to the same purpose Musculus, Cocceius, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "out of the pit of sounding calamity", Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit - Margin: “A pit of noise.” The word used here means a pit; a cistern; a prison; a dungeon; a grave. This last signification of the word is found in Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:4; Psalms 88:4; Isaiah 38:18; Isaiah 14:19. It may refer to any calamity - or to trouble, like being in a pit - or it may refer to the grave. The word rendered “horrible” - שׁאון shâ'ôn - means properly “noise, uproar, tumult,” as of waters; of a crowd of men; of war. Then it seems to be used in the sense of “desolation” or “destruction,” as applicable to the grave. DeWette understands it here of a pit, a cavern, or an abyss that roars or is tumultuous; that is, that is impassable. Perhaps this is the idea - a cavern, deep and dark, where the waters roar, and which seems to be filled with horrors. So Rosenmuller understands it. The Septuagint renders it: ἐκ λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας ek lakkou talaipōrias, “a lake of misery.” It is a deep and horrid cavern, where there is no hope of being rescued, or where it would seem that there would be certain destruction.
Out of the miry clay - At the bottom of the pit. Where there was no solid ground - no rock on which to stand. See Jeremiah 38:6; Psalms 69:2, Psalms 69:14.
And set my feet upon a rock - Where there was firm standing.
And established my goings - Or, fixed my steps. That is, he enabled me to walk as on solid ground; he conducted me along safely, where there was no danger of descending to the pit again or of sinking in the mire. If we understand this of the Redeemer, it refers to that time when, his sorrows ended, and his work of atonement done, it became certain that he would never be exposed again to such dangers, or sink into such a depth of woes, but that his course ever onward would be one of safety and of glory.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 40:2. A horrible pit — Literally, the sounding pit; where nothing was heard except the howlings of wild beasts, or the hollow sounds of winds reverberated and broken from the craggy sides and roof.
The miry clay — Where the longer I stayed the deeper I sank, and was utterly unable to save myself. The Syriac and Arabic translate "The pit of perdition, and the mud of corruption." These are figurative expressions to point out the dreary, dismal, ruinous state of sin and guilt, and the utter inability of a condemned sinner to save himself either from the guilt of his conscience, or the corruption of his heart.
Set my feet upon a rock — Thou hast changed my state from guilt to pardon; from corruption to holiness; in consequence of which my goings are established. I have now power over all sin, and can walk steadily in the way that leads to God's kingdom.
