Psalms 116:8
For You have delivered my soul from death, || My eyes from tears, my feet from overthrowing.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
In Context
7Return, O my soul, to your rest, || For YHWH has conferred benefits on you.
9I habitually walk before YHWH || In the lands of the living.
Cross References
Psalms 37:24When he falls, he is not cast down, || For YHWH is sustaining his hand.
Psalms 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, || Do You not [keep] my feet from falling? To habitually walk before God in the light of the living!
Psalms 94:18If I have said, “My foot has slipped,” || Your kindness, O YHWH, supports me.
Isaiah 38:5“Go, and you have said to Hezekiah, Thus said YHWH, God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tear, behold, I am adding fifteen years to your days,
Revelation 21:4and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor will there be anymore pain, because the first things passed away.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:2-10
Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 I love the Lord , because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord ; O Lord , I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord , and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped… Read the whole commentary →