Psalm 56:13
New International Version
For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

New Living Translation
For you have rescued me from death; you have kept my feet from slipping. So now I can walk in your presence, O God, in your life-giving light.

English Standard Version
For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

Berean Standard Bible
For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

King James Bible
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?

New King James Version
For You have delivered my soul from death. Have You not kept my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?

New American Standard Bible
For You have saved my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living.

NASB 1995
For You have delivered my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living.

NASB 1977
For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living.

Legacy Standard Bible
For You have delivered my soul from death, Indeed my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of the living.

Amplified Bible
For You have rescued my soul from death, Yes, and my feet from stumbling, So that I may walk before God In the light of life.

Christian Standard Bible
For you rescued me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For You delivered me from death, even my feet from stumbling, to walk before God in the light of life.

American Standard Version
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: Hast thou not delivered my feet from falling, That I may walk before God In the light of the living?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because you have delivered my soul from death and my feet from slipping, that I may be pleasing before you, God, in the land of the living.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from sliding, that I should be well-pleasing before God in the land of the living.

Contemporary English Version
You protected me from death and kept me from stumbling, so that I would please you and follow the light that leads to life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

English Revised Version
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: hast thou not delivered my feet from falling? that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You have rescued me from death. You have kept my feet from stumbling so that I could walk in your presence, in the light of life.

Good News Translation
because you have rescued me from death and kept me from defeat. And so I walk in the presence of God, in the light that shines on the living.

International Standard Version
For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living!

JPS Tanakh 1917
For thou hast delivered my soul from death; Hast Thou not delivered my feet from stumbling? That I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Literal Standard Version
For You have delivered my soul from death, | Do You not [keep] my feet from falling? To habitually walk before God in the light of the living!

Majority Standard Bible
For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

New American Bible
For you have snatched me from death, kept my feet from stumbling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living.

NET Bible
when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.

New Revised Standard Version
For you have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of life.

New Heart English Bible
For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt thou not deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

World English Bible
For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Young's Literal Translation
For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Be Merciful to Me, O God
12Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You. 13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

Cross References
Job 33:30
to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Psalm 33:19
to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.

Psalm 49:15
But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

Psalm 49:19
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

Psalm 68:20
Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

Psalm 86:13
For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.

Psalm 107:20
He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.


Treasury of Scripture

For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

For

Psalm 86:12,13
I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore…

Psalm 116:8
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

2 Corinthians 1:10
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

wilt

Psalm 17:5
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

Psalm 94:18
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

Psalm 145:14
The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

walk

Psalm 116:9
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Isaiah 2:5
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

the light

Job 33:30
To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

John 8:12
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 12:35,36
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth…

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1. David, praying to God in confidence of his word, complains of his enemies,
9. He professes his confidence in God's word, and promises to praise him














(13) Wilt thou not deliver?--Better, hast thou not delivered?

From falling.--Literally, front a thrust.

Verse 13. - For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling; rather, hast thou not delivered (Revised Version); or, surely thou hast delivered (Professor Cheyne). The psalmist views his entire deliverance as accomplished; nothing remains to be asked for. That I may walk before God in the light of the living; i.e. that henceforth I may be free from trouble, and walk before God in the clear daylight, no longer dwelling in darkness, but in "the light of life" (comp. Job 33:30; John 8:12).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

You have delivered
הִצַּ֪לְתָּ (hiṣ·ṣal·tā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5337: To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver

my soul
נַפְשִׁ֡י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

from death,
מִמָּוֶת֮ (mim·mā·weṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

and my feet
רַגְלַ֗י (raḡ·lay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

from stumbling,
מִ֫דֶּ֥חִי (mid·de·ḥî)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1762: A push, a fall

that I may walk
לְ֭הִֽתְהַלֵּךְ (lə·hiṯ·hal·lêḵ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hitpael - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

before
לִפְנֵ֣י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

God
אֱלֹהִ֑ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

in the light
בְּ֝א֗וֹר (bə·’ō·wr)
Preposition | Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

of life.
הַֽחַיִּֽים׃ (ha·ḥay·yîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life


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