Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
and thou have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou have set my feet in a large place.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Holman Bible
You have set my feet in a spacious place.
International Standard Version
You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy, but you have set my feet in a sturdy place.
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.
Amplified
And You have not given me into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a broad 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.
Darby Translation
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large place.
Julia Smith Translation
And thou didst not shut me up in the hand of the enemy: thou didst cause my feet to stand in a broad place.
King James 2000
And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you have not delivered me into [the] hand of [the] enemy. You have set my feet in a broad place.
Modern King James verseion
and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and hast shut me up into the hand of the enemy; but hast set my feet in a large room.
NET Bible
You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.
New Heart English Bible
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
The 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.
Webster
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my foot in a large room.
World English Bible
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
Youngs 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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 31:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Protection
7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy loving kindness, for thou have seen my affliction. Thou have known my soul in adversities, 8 and thou have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou have set my feet in a large place. 9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight unless their Rock had sold them, and LORD had delivered them up?
Job 36:16
Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.
1 Samuel 17:46
This day LORD will deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee. And I will give the dead bodies of the armies of the Philistines this day to the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of
1 Samuel 24:18
And thou have declared this day how that thou have dealt well with me, inasmuch as when LORD had delivered me up into thy hand, thou killed me not.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.
Job 16:11
God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
Psalm 4:1
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness. Thou have enlarged me in distress. Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Psalm 18:19
He also brought me forth into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.
Psalm 88:8
Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Isaiah 19:4
And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. And a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, LORD of hosts.