Psalm 66:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

you let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a spacious place.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water: But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You caused men to ride over our heads [when we were prostrate]; we went through fire and through water, but You brought us out into a broad, moist place [to abundance and refreshment and the open air].

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou didst cause men to ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water; But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

Common English Bible

let other people run right over our heads— we’ve been through fire and water. But you brought us out to freedom!

Psalm 66:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:17

The king left, followed by all the people, and they stopped at the last house.

Job 36:16

He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no constraint, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

Job 5:19

He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you.

Psalm 33:19

to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.

Isaiah 51:23

And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, “Bow down, that we may walk on you,” and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to walk on.

Daniel 3:26

Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Acts 14:22

There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”

James 5:11

Indeed, we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about, for the Lord is compassionate and merciful.