Rejoicing in Answered Prayer

A Psalm of David.

28 To You I will cry, O Lord my Rock:
(A)Do not be silent to me,
(B)Lest, if You are silent to me,
I become like those who go down to the pit.

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23 But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
(A)Bloodthirsty and deceitful men (B)shall not live out half their days;
But I will trust in You.

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15 Let not the floodwater overflow me,
Nor let the deep swallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

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13 For great is Your mercy toward me,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of [a]Sheol.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 86:13 The abode of the dead

Answer me speedily, O Lord;
My spirit fails!
Do not hide Your face from me,
(A)Lest I [a]be like those who [b]go down into the pit.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 143:7 become
  2. Psalm 143:7 Die

12 Let us swallow them alive like [a]Sheol,
And whole, (A)like those who go down to the Pit;

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  1. Proverbs 1:12 Or the grave

17 Indeed it was for my own peace
That I had great bitterness;
But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

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I went down to the [a]moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my (A)life from the pit,
O Lord, my God.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:6 foundations or bases

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