For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.
For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;
For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;
Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.
His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.
For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me. Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.’ The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.
For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
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