KJV King James Version
For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
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Psalm 86:13
For great [is] thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
WEB World English Bible
For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
ASV American Standard Version
For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For Thy kindness is great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Surrounding context — Psalm 86
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, longsuffering, 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.
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Psalm 103:8-12The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.Luke 1:58And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.Psalm 56:13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?Job 33:28He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.Psalm 57:10For thy mercy [is] great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.Psalm 116:8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, [and] my feet from falling.1 Thessalonians 1:10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.Psalm 16:10For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.Psalm 30:3O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.Psalm 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.Job 33:24Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul [delivered it] from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.Job 33:18He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.Psalm 108:4For thy mercy [is] great above the heavens: and thy truth [reacheth] unto the clouds.Job 33:22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.Jonah 2:3-6For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
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