Psalms Chapter 40 verse 2 Holy Bible
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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
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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.
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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.
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Psalms 40 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
- Love Lifted Me Up by Micah Tyler
- Love Lifted Me by The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
- Love Lifted Me by Ashmont Hill
- Love Lifted Me by Alan Jackson
- Lifted by Jonathan Traylor
- Not Afraid by Mosaic MSC
- My Feet Are On The Rock by Gaither Vocal Band
- Psalm 40: Here Am I, Lord I Come To Do Your Will (Chanted Verses) by Francesca LaRosa
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - He brought me up also out of an horrible pit; literally, a pit of tumult or uproar, which is variously explained. Some imagine a pit with rushing water at the bottom of it, but such pits are scarcely known in Palestine. Others a pit which is filled with noise as a warrior, with crash of arms and amid the shouts of enemies, falls into it. But pits, though used in hunting, were not employed in warfare. The explanation that שׁאון here is to be taken in the secondary sense of "destruction" or "misery," seems to me preferable (see the Septuagint, ἐκ λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας). Out of the miry clay (comp. Psalm 69:2, 14). Such "clay "would be frequently found at the bottom of disused cisterns. And set my feet upon a rock; i.e. upon solid ground, where I had a firm footing. And established my goings; literally, and make my steps firm (comp. Psalm 17:5; Psalm 18:36; Psalm 94:18).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Horrible pit.--The rendering of the margin, "pit of noise," takes shaon in its primary sense, as in Isaiah 17:12, Psalm 65:7, and the idea of a noise of rushing water suits this passage. Most commentators, however, take it here in the sense the cognate bears in Psalm 35:8, "destruction." The LXX. and Vulg. have "misery."Miry clay.--The word translated "clay" (comp. Psalm 69:2) is from a root meaning to boil up, or ferment. (One of its derivatives means "wine.") Hence "froth," or "slime." LXX., ilus; Vulg., f?x. A verse of R. Browning's perhaps expresses the poet's image:--"It frothed by,A black eddy, bespate with flakes and fumes." . . .
