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Psalm 40

Psa. 40:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He brought me up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
also out of ζan horrible
sha'own (Hebrew #7588)
uproar (as of rushing); by implication, destruction
KJV usage: X horrible, noise, pomp, rushing, tumult (X -uous).
Pronounce: shaw-one'
Origin: from 7582
pit
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
, out of the miry
yaven (Hebrew #3121)
properly, dregs (as effervescing); hence, mud
KJV usage: mire, miry.
Pronounce: yaw-ven'
Origin: from the same as 3196
clay
tiyt (Hebrew #2916)
mud or clay; figuratively, calamity
KJV usage: clay, dirt, mire.
Pronounce: teet
Origin: from an unused root meaning apparently to be sticky (rath. perb. a demon. from 2894, through the idea of dirt to be swept away)
, and set
quwm (Hebrew #6965)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
KJV usage: abide, accomplish, X be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, X be dim, endure, X enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, X but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-)rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-)stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, - rising).
Pronounce: koom
Origin: a primitive root
my feet
regel (Hebrew #7272)
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphem. the pudenda
KJV usage: X be able to endure, X according as, X after, X coming, X follow, ((broken-))foot((-ed, -stool)), X great toe, X haunt, X journey, leg, + piss, + possession, time.
Pronounce: reh'-gel
Origin: from 7270
upon a rock
cela` (Hebrew #5553)
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
KJV usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Pronounce: seh'-lah
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
, and established
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
my goings
'ashur (Hebrew #838)
from 833 in the sense of going; a step
KJV usage: going, step.
Pronounce: aw-shoor'
Origin: or ashshur {ash-shoor'}
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a pit of noise.

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Ministry on This Verse

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brought.
Psa. 18:16‑17• 16He sendeth from on high, he taketh me,{HR}He draweth me out of great waters.
 17He delivereth me from my strong enemies and from my haters,{HR}For they were stronger than I. (Psa. 18:16‑17)
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Psa. 71:20• 20Thou who hast made us see many distresses and evils,{HR}Wilt turn and make us live,{HR}And from the depths of the earth wilt turn and bring us up. (Psa. 71:20)
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Psa. 86:13• 13For thy mercy [is] great unto me,{HR}And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. (Psa. 86:13)
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Psa. 116:3• 3Bands of death compassed me,{HR}And straits of Sheol seized me:{HR}I found trouble and sorrow; (Psa. 116:3)
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Psa. 142:6‑7• 6Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low;{HR}Deliver me from my persecutors,{HR}For they are stronger than I.
 7Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks to thy name:{HR}The righteous shall compass me round,{HR}For thou dealest bountifully with me. (Psa. 142:6‑7)
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Psa. 143:3• 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul,{HR}He hath crushed to the earth my life;{HR}He hath made me dwell in dark places,{HR}Like those long dead. (Psa. 143:3)
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Isa. 24:22• 22And they shall be gathered together [as] prisoners gathered for the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited. (Isa. 24:22)
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Jonah 2:5‑6• 5The waters encompassed me, to the soul:{HR}The deep was round about me,{HR}The weeds were wrapped about my head.{HR}
 6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;{HR}The bars of the earth closed upon me forever:{HR}But thou hast brought up my life from the pit,{HR}O Jehovah my God.{HR} (Jonah 2:5‑6)
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Zech. 9:11• 11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant, I will send forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. (Zech. 9:11)
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Acts 2:24,27‑31• 24whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held fast by it.
 27because thou wilt not leave my soul to hades nor give thy Holy One to see corruption.
 28Thou didst make known to me ways of life; thou wilt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
 29Brethren, one may speak with freedom unto you about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is amongst us unto this day.
 30Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God swore with an oath to him of the fruit of his loins to seat upon his throne,
 31he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left to hades nor did his flesh see corruption. (Acts 2:24,27‑31)
horrible pit.
Heb. pit of noise.
Matt. 13:50• 50and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 13:50)
the miry.
Psa. 69:2,14‑15• 2I sink in deep mire where [is] no standing.{HR}I am come into depths of waters,{HR}And the flood overfloweth me.
 14Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink;{HR}Let me be delivered from those hating me,{HR}And from the depths of waters.
 15Let not the waterflood overflow me,{HR}And let not the deep swallow me up;{HR}And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:2,14‑15)
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Jer. 38:6‑12• 6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
 7Now when Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
 8Ebed-Melech went forth out of the king's house, and spake to the king, saying,
 9My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.
 10Then the king commanded Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
 11So Ebed-Melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
 12And Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. (Jer. 38:6‑12)
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Lam. 3:53‑55• 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
 54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
 55I called upon Thy name, O Jehovah, out of the low dungeon. (Lam. 3:53‑55)
set.
Psa. 27:5• 5For he will hide me in his tabernacle in the day of evil;{HR}In the secret place of his tent will he hide me;{HR}He will set me upon a rock. (Psa. 27:5)
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Psa. 61:2• 2From the end of the earth I will call unto thee,{HR}When my heart is overwhelmed:{HR}To a rock higher than I thou wilt lead me. (Psa. 61:2)
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Matt. 7:24‑25• 24Whoever therefore heareth these my words and doeth them, I will liken him to a prudent man which built his house upon the rock;
 25and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it fell not; for it had been founded upon the rock. (Matt. 7:24‑25)
established.
Psa. 17:5• 5To hold fast my feet in thy paths;{HR}My footsteps were not moved. (Psa. 17:5)
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Psa. 18:36• 36Thou enlargest my steps under me,{HR}And my ancles have not slipped. (Psa. 18:36)
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Psa. 37:23• 23By Jehovah the steps of a man are established,{HR}And he delighteth in his way. (Psa. 37:23)
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Psa. 119:133• 133Establish my steps in thy saying,{HR}And let not any iniquity have dominion over me. (Psa. 119:133)
• Death is not spoken of save as it may be trial—a horrible pit, miry clay—images of distress, terror, and, humanly speaking, danger. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 37-39” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:

W. Kelly Translation

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And he brought me up from a pit of noise,{HR}From the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock;{HR}He fixed my steps.