KJV King James Version
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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Psalm 18:19
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
WEB World English Bible
He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
ASV American Standard Version
He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And He bringeth me forth to a large place, He draweth me out, because He delighted in me.
Surrounding context — Psalm 18
16 He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 For all his judgments [were] before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
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Psalm 31:8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.Psalm 118:5I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, [and set me] in a large place.Psalm 18:36Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.Job 36:16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait [into] a broad place, where [there is] no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table [should be] full of fatness.Psalm 40:2He 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.2 Samuel 22:18-27He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.Psalm 37:23The steps of a [good] man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.1 Kings 10:9Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.
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