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Psalms 18:16
Psalms 18:16 is verse 16 of Psalms chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
King James Version
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
World English Bible
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
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Psalms 18:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
15 The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
Psalms 144:7Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
Psalms 18:43You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
Psalms 40:1I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
Psalms 40:2He 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.
Psalms 40:3He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
Exodus 2:10When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
2 Samuel 22:17He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.
Jonah 2:5The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
Jonah 2:6To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
Revelation 17:15Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.