Psalms 118:13

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“I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.”

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BSBPD

“I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the Lord helped me.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou didst thrust sore at me that I might fall; But Jehovah helped me.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Thou hast sorely thrust me to fall, And Jehovah hath helped me.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 118:13 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Samuel 20:3But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
  2. 1 Samuel 25:29And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
  3. 2 Samuel 17:1Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
  4. Psalms 18:17He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
  5. Psalms 56:1Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.
  6. Psalms 86:17Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
  7. Psalms 129:2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
  8. Psalms 140:4Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
  9. Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
  10. Matthew 4:1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
  11. Hebrews 2:14Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

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