Psalm 56:13
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

For

Psalm 86:12,13 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever: . . .

Psalm 116:8 For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

2 Corinthians 1:10 Who hath delivered and doth deliver us out of so great dangers: in whom we trust that he will yet also deliver us,

1 Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven (whom he raised up from the dead), Jesus, who hath delivered us from the wrath to come.

Hebrews 2:15 And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.

James 5:20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way shall save his soul from death and shall cover a multitude of sins.

wilt

Psalm 17:5 Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.

Psalm 94:18 If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

Psalm 145:14 The Lord lifteth up all that fall: and setteth up all that are cast down.

1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; because no man shall prevail by his own strength.

walk

Psalm 116:9 I will please the Lord in the land of the living.

Genesis 17:1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

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

Isaiah 38:3 And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.

the light

Job 33:30 That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.

John 8:12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 12:35,36 Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while, the light is among you. Walk whilst you have the light, and the darkness overtake you not. And he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither be goeth. . . .

Ephesians 5:8-14 For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light. . . .

Revelation 21:23,24 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof. . . .

Context
Be Merciful to Me, O God
12In me, O God, are vows to thee, which I will pay, praises to thee: 13Because 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.
Cross References
Job 33:30
That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.

Psalm 33:19
To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.

Psalm 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

Psalm 49:19
He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

Psalm 68:20
Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Psalm 86:13
For thy mercy is great towards me: and thou hast delivered my soul out of the lower hell.

Psalm 107:20
He sent his word, and healed them: and delivered them from their destructions.

Psalm 116:8
For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

Psalm 116:9
I will please the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 56:12
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