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Psalm 66:11

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

9who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.
10For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
11You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.
12You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
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Prison and a burdened back raise the hard question of God's hand in suffering, as the people name him as the source of their confinement.

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Where else Scripture says this

7 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Lamentations 1:13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and …Both describe suffering attributed to God, using prison or a net to express confinement that the sufferer cannot escape.
Ezekiel 12:13I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he …God brings people into confinement in both passages, pictured as prison in the psalm and capture followed by exile in Ezekiel.
Job 19:6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.Both speakers attribute their confinement to God: the psalm describes prison, while Job describes being surrounded by God's net.
Hosea 7:12When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.Both describe God restricting people's freedom, through prison in the psalm and a net spread over them in Hosea.
Deuteronomy 33:11LORD, bless his skills. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise …The link is limited to God's power to afflict: the psalm recalls confinement, while Deuteronomy asks him to strike enemies.
Matthew 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’Both address God about where he brings people: the psalm recalls prison, while Matthew asks for protection from temptation and deliverance.
Lamentations 3:2–66He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.Both attribute a painful condition to God's leading, described as prison in the psalm and walking in darkness in Lamentations.
Where this verse fits

Doubt. feeling distant from God. sermon or Bible study notes.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Name one burden while praying Psalm 66:11 aloud

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Encouragement

The people speak to God about the burden they say he laid on them. Their worship includes this hard account of his rule.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).