Psalm 31:8 {30:9}
Good News Translation
You have not let my enemies capture me; you have given me freedom to go where I wish.

New Revised Standard Version
and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

Contemporary English Version
You kept me from the hands of my enemies, and you set me free.

New American Bible
You will not abandon me into enemy hands, but will set my feet in a free and open space.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

shut me

Psalm 88:8 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

Deuteronomy 32:30 How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

1 Samuel 17:46 This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth: that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

1 Samuel 24:18 And thou hast shewed this day what good things thou hast done to me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me.

1 Samuel 26:8 And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day into thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear, even to the earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time.

Job 16:11 God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

Isaiah 19:4 And I will deliver Egypt into the hand of cruel masters, and a strong king shall rule over them, saith the Lord the God of hosts.

set

Psalm 4:1 Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David. [2] When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

Psalm 18:19 And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.

Job 36:16 Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.

Context
Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit
7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses. 8And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:30
How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

2 Samuel 22:20
And he brought me forth into a large place, he delivered me, because I pleased him.

Psalm 18:19
And he brought me forth into a large place: he saved me, because he was well pleased with me.

Psalm 37:33
But the Lord will not leave him in his hands; nor condemn him when he shall be judged.

Psalm 31:7
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