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Psalm 66:9
who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.
7He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.
8Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard,
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.
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Feet held firm and life preserved give this praise its shape, even as the next lines name testing and prison under God's rule.
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Psalm 121:3He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.Both describe God's keeping through the same concrete picture: a foot he will not allow to be moved.
Acts 17:28‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’Both locate human life in dependence on God: he preserves the living, and human existence rests in him.
Deuteronomy 30:20to love the LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the …Both connect continued life with God, whom Deuteronomy tells the people to love, obey, and cling to.
Proverbs 2:8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.Both portray God as a keeper, preserving life in the psalm and guarding his saints' way in Proverbs.
Psalm 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.Both use feet to describe dependence on God, who holds his people up when their footing is threatened.
Psalm 112:6For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.Both speak of stability through the language of remaining unmoved or unshaken.
Psalm 37:23–24A man’s steps are established by the LORD. He delights in his way.Both picture secure footing as God's work: he keeps feet from moving and establishes a person's steps.
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.Both describe God keeping his people's feet; Samuel's song also rejects human strength as the basis for prevailing.
1 Samuel 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling …Both speak of life preserved by God, with Samuel's passage describing that protection amid pursuit by enemies.
Colossians 3:3–4For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.Both connect life's security to God; Colossians speaks of life hidden with Christ in God.
Deuteronomy 6:24The LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.Both name preservation among the living as God's work, with Deuteronomy linking it to his commands for his people's good.
Proverbs 24:12If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not give to every …Both describe God as life's keeper; Proverbs also names his knowledge of hearts and judgment of deeds.
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You do not have to call hardship easy to praise God for sustaining life. The people singing here credit him with their survival while naming the burdens they bore.
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