Parallel Verses
Amplified
For You have rescued my soul from death,
Yes, and my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of life.
New American Standard Bible
So that I may
In the
King James Version
For 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?
Holman Bible
even my feet from stumbling,
to walk before God in the light of life.
International Standard Version
For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living! To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy," when he fled from Saul into a cave.
A Conservative Version
For thou have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
American Standard Version
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?
Bible in Basic English
Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.
Darby Translation
For thou hast delivered my soul from death; wilt thou not keep my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Julia Smith Translation
For thou deliveredst my soul from death: are not my feet from falling, to go about before God in the light of the living?
King James 2000
For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Lexham Expanded Bible
because you have delivered my soul from death. [Have you] not [kept] my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Modern King James verseion
For You have delivered my soul from death; have You not kept my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
NET Bible
when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.
New Heart English Bible
For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
The Emphasized Bible
For thou hast rescued my soul from death, Wilt thou not rescue my feet from stumbling? That I may walk to and fro, before God, In the light of life.
Webster
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt thou not deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
World English Bible
For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 56:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call For God's Protection
12
Your vows are binding upon me, O God;
I will give thank offerings to You.
For You have rescued my soul from death,
Yes, and my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of life.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 33:30
To bring his life back from the pit [of destruction],
That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
Psalm 116:8-9
For You have rescued my life from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from stumbling and falling.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the
Walk [habitually] before Me [with integrity, knowing that you are always in My presence], and be blameless and complete [in obedience to Me].
1 Samuel 2:9
“He guards the feet of His godly (faithful) ones,
But the wicked ones are silenced and perish in darkness;
For a man shall not prevail by might.
Psalm 17:5
My steps have held closely to Your paths;
My feet have not staggered.
Psalm 49:15
But God will redeem my life from the power of Sheol,
For He will receive me. Selah.
Psalm 86:12-13
I will give thanks and praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart;
And will glorify Your name forevermore.
Psalm 94:18
If I say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.
Psalm 145:14
The Lord upholds all those [of His own] who fall
And raises up all those who are bowed down.
Isaiah 2:5
O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
Isaiah 38:3
and said, “Please, O Lord, just remember how I have walked before You in faithfulness and truth, and with a whole heart [absolutely devoted to You], and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept greatly.
John 8:12
Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said,
John 12:35-36
So Jesus said to them,
2 Corinthians 1:10
He rescued us from so great a threat of death, and will continue to rescue us. On Him we have set our hope. And He will again rescue us [from danger and draw us near],
Ephesians 5:8-14
For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [live as those who are native-born to the Light]
1 Thessalonians 1:10
and to [look forward and confidently] wait for [the coming of] His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus, who [personally] rescues us from the coming wrath [and draws us to Himself, granting us all the privileges and rewards of a new life with Him].
Hebrews 2:15
and [that He] might free all those who through [the haunting] fear of death were held in slavery throughout their lives.
James 5:20
let the [latter] one know that the one who has turned a sinner from the error of his way will save that one’s soul from death and cover a multitude of sins [that is, obtain the pardon of the many sins committed by the one who has been restored].
Revelation 21:23-24
And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to give light to it, for the glory (splendor, radiance) of God has illumined it, and the Lamb is its lamp and light.