Psalms 116:8
For you have delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Updated King James 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 unto your rest, O my soul; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.
9I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Cross References
Psalms 37:24Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
Psalms 56:13For 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?
Psalms 94:18When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add unto your days fifteen years.
Revelation 21:4And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are 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 →