Psalms 40:2

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Psalms 40:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

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.

3 He 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.

4 Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

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Psalms 116:3

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Psalms 142:6

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

Psalms 142:7

Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.

Psalms 143:3

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

Isaiah 24:22

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

Jonah 2:5

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

Jonah 2:6

To 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!

Zechariah 9:11

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

Acts 2:24

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

Acts 2:27

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Acts 2:28

You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’

Acts 2:29

Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Acts 2:30

But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that He would place one of his descendants on his throne.

Acts 2:31

Foreseeing this, David spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did His body see decay.

Matthew 13:50

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

Psalms 69:2

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

Psalms 69:14

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

Psalms 69:15

Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

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Jeremiah 38:8

Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and said to the king,

Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”

Jeremiah 38:10

So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”

Jeremiah 38:11

Then Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the king’s palace, to a place below the storehouse. From there he took old rags and worn-out clothes and lowered them with ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

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Lamentations 3:54

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Psalms 18:36

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