Psalm 118:18

New International Reader's Version

The Lord has really punished me. But he didn’t let me die.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:10

So time after time members of your own royal house will be killed with swords. That’s because you turned your back on me. You took the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, to be your own.’

Job 5:20

When there isn’t enough food, God will keep you from dying. When you go into battle, he won’t let a sword strike you down.

Jonah 2:6

I sank down to the bottom of the mountains. I thought I had died and gone down into the grave forever. But you are the Lord my God. You brought my life up from the very edge of the pit of death.

1 Corinthians 11:32

When the Lord judges us in this way, he corrects us. Then in the end we will not be judged along with the rest of the world.

2 Corinthians 6:9

We are known, but people treat us as if we were unknown. We are dying, but we continue to live. We are beaten, but we are not killed.