Psalm 49:15
New International Version
But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead; he will surely take me to himself.

New Living Translation
But as for me, God will redeem my life. He will snatch me from the power of the grave. Interlude

English Standard Version
But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah

Berean Standard Bible
But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

King James Bible
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

New King James Version
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me. Selah

New American Standard Bible
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah

NASB 1995
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah.

NASB 1977
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For He will receive me. Selah.

Legacy Standard Bible
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah.

Amplified Bible
But God will redeem my life from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah.

Christian Standard Bible
But God will redeem me from the power of Sheol, for he will take me. Selah

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But God will redeem my life from the power of Sheol, for He will take me. Selah

American Standard Version
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. [Selah

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
God will redeem my soul and he will raise me up from the hand of Sheol.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But God shall deliver my soul from the power of Hades, when he shall receive me. Pause.

Contemporary English Version
But God will rescue me from the power of death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

English Revised Version
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol: for he shall receive me. Selah

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But God will buy me back from the power of hell because he will take me. [Selah]

Good News Translation
But God will rescue me; he will save me from the power of death.

International Standard Version
God will truly redeem me from the power of Sheol. He will surely receive me! Interlude

JPS Tanakh 1917
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the nether-world; For He shall receive me. Selah

Literal Standard Version
Only, God ransoms my soul from the hand of Sheol, | For He receives me. Selah.

Majority Standard Bible
But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

New American Bible
But God will redeem my life, will take me from the hand of Sheol. Selah

NET Bible
But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety. (Selah)

New Revised Standard Version
But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah

New Heart English Bible
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

Webster's Bible Translation
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

World English Bible
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Evanescence of Wealth
14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode. 15But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah 16Do not be amazed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.…

Cross References
Genesis 5:24
Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

Psalm 16:10
For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

Psalm 16:11
You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

Psalm 56:13
For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

Psalm 68:20
Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

Psalm 69:18
Draw near to my soul and redeem me; ransom me because of my foes.

Psalm 73:24
You guide me with Your counsel, and later receive me in glory.


Treasury of Scripture

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

God

Psalm 31:5
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

Psalm 56:13
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Psalm 73:24
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

power [heb.

Psalm 16:10
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Psalm 86:13
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Psalm 89:48
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

shall

Luke 23:46
And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.

John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Acts 7:59
And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

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(15) But God will.--Better, But God shall redeem my life from the hand of sheol when it seizes me. Taken by itself, this statement might only imply that when just at the point of death, the Divine favour would draw him back and rescue him. But taken with the rendering given above to the previous verse, we must see here the dim foreshadowing of a better hope, that death did not altogether break the covenant bond between Jehovah and His people, a hope to which, through the later psalms and the book of Job, we see the Hebrew mind feeling its way. (Comp. Psalm 16:10; and see Note to Psalm 6:5.)

Verse 15. - But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave. Here is the solution of the "dark saying," the key to the" parable." The souls of the righteous will be redeemed, not by themselves, but by God - they will be delivered "from the power of the grave," or rather of Hades; and, while the ungodly are held under by death and the grave (ver. 14), they will be released, and enter upon a higher life. For he shall receive me. As God "took Enoch," when he "was not" (Genesis 4:24) - took him to be with himself - so he will "receive" every righteous soul, and take it home, and give it rest and peace in his own dwelling-place. As Professor Cheyne observes, "It is the weakest of explanations to say that the psalmist rejoices thus in the prospect of mere deliverance from the danger of death. A few years later, and the prospect will return in a heightened form." The fact is that "the poet has that religious intuition which forms the kernel of the hope of immortality." At the same time, we may admit, as Hupfeld argues, that the belief in immortality is "not here stated as a revealed doctrine, but as a presentiment, a deep inward conviction, inseparable from real living faith in a living God."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But
אַךְ־ (’aḵ-)
Adverb
Strong's 389: A particle of affirmation, surely

God
אֱלֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

will redeem
יִפְדֶּ֣ה (yip̄·deh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6299: To sever, ransom, gener, to release, preserve

my life
נַ֭פְשִׁי (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

from
מִֽיַּד־ (mî·yaḏ-)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3027: A hand

Sheol,
שְׁא֑וֹל (šə·’ō·wl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)

for
כִּ֖י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

He will surely take me to Himself.
יִקָּחֵ֣נִי (yiq·qā·ḥê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 3947: To take

Selah
סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh)
Interjection
Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause


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