Psalms 40:2

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Cross References (23)

  • Psalms 37:23 (29)

    The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.

  • Psalms 119:133 (24)

    Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.

  • Psalms 27:5 (22)

    For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me

  • Psalms 61:2 (17)

    From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

  • Matthew 7:24–25 (17)

    Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

  • Psalms 71:20 (16)

    Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth

  • Jonah 2:5–6 (14)

    The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

  • Psalms 69:2 (13)

    I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me

  • Psalms 86:13 (13)

    For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

  • Psalms 69:14–15 (12)

    Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

  • Zechariah 9:11 (12)

    As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

  • Psalms 18:36 (11)

    You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

  • Acts 2:24 (10)

    But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep Him

  • Jeremiah 38:6–12 (9)

    So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the gu

  • Psalms 142:6–7 (8)

    Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.

  • Psalms 17:5 (8)

    My steps have held to Your paths; my feet have not slipped.

  • Psalms 18:16–17 (8)

    He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

  • Psalms 143:3 (8)

    For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dea

  • Psalms 116:3 (6)

    The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

  • Lamentations 3:53–55 (4)

    They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

  • Acts 2:27–31 (4)

    because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

  • Matthew 13:50 (2)

    and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  • Isaiah 24:22 (1)

    They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.