The LORD {is} merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. {plentious...: Heb. great in mercy}

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: {wilt} not {thou deliver} my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, {and} my feet from falling.

For thy mercy {is} great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. {He...: or, He hath delivered my soul, etc, and my life}

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, {even} Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. {a ransom: or, an atonement}

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul {delivered it} from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. {for peace...: or, on my peace came great bitterness} {thou hast in...: Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit}

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. {from perishing: Heb. from passing}

For thy mercy {is} great above the heavens: and thy truth {reacheth} unto the clouds. {clouds: or, skies}

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. {midst: Heb. heart}

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, {and} established my goings. {an...: Heb. a pit of noise}

{Thou}, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, {and} thou heardest my voice. {by...: or, out of mine affliction} {hell: or, the grave}

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, {and} my feet from falling.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. {power: Heb. hand} {the grave: or, hell}

I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. {power: Heb. hand}

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul {delivered it} from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. {for peace...: or, on my peace came great bitterness} {thou hast in...: Heb. thou hast loved my soul from the pit}

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. {sorrows: or, cords}

But those {that} seek my soul, to destroy {it}, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Great {are} thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. {Great: or, Many}

Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble {which I suffer} of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. {shall burn: or, hath burned} {shall consume: or, hath consumed}

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.

And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. {a ransom: or, an atonement}