Psalms 30:3

O Lord, you pulled me ¹  up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave. ² 

Job 33:19-22,28; Ps 16:10; Ps 28:1; Ps 40:1,2; Ps 56:13; Ps 71:20; Ps 86:13; Ps 116:8; Isa 38:17,18; Jon 2:4-6

¹ tn Or “my life.”

² tn Heb “you kept me alive from those descending into the pit.” The Hebrew noun בוֹר (bor, “pit, cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead. The translation follows the consonantal Hebrew text (Kethib); the marginal reading (Qere) has, “you kept me alive so that I did not go down into the pit.”