Psalms 18:33

Complete Jewish Bible

"It is God who girds me with strength; he makes my way go straight.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He makes my feet like the feet of a deerand sets me securely on the heights.

Hebrew Names Version
He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me on my high places.

King James Version
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

English Standard Version
He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.

New Century Version
He makes me like a deer that does not stumble; he helps me stand on the steep mountains.

New English Translation
He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

Amplified Bible
He makes my feet like hinds' feet [able to stand firmly and tread safely on paths of testing and trouble]; He sets me [securely] upon my high places.

New American Standard Bible
He makes my feet like deer's feet, And sets me up on my high places.

World English Bible
He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me on my high places.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He maketh my feete like hindes feete, and setteth me vpon mine high places.

Legacy Standard Bible
He makes my feet like hinds' feet,And sets me upon my high places.

Berean Standard Bible
He makes my feet like the feet of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

Contemporary English Version
You make my feet run as fast as those of a deer, and you help me stand on the mountains.

Darby Translation
Who maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places;

Easy-to-Read Version
He makes my feet as steady as those of a deer. Even on steep mountains he keeps me from falling.

George Lamsa Translation
He makes my feet like harts feet and sets me upon high places.

Good News Translation
He makes me sure-footed as a deer; he keeps me safe on the mountains.

Lexham English Bible
he made my feet like the deer's, and on my high places he makes me stand.

Literal Translation
setting my feet like the deer, and making me stand on my high places;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He hath made my fete like hartes fete, and set me vp an hye.

American Standard Version
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: And setteth me upon my high places.

Bible in Basic English
He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way straight;

King James Version (1611)
Hee maketh my feete like hindes feete, and setteth me vpon my high places.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He hath made my feete lyke Hartes feete: and he hath set me vp on hygh.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
who strengthens my feet as hart’s feet, and sets me upon high places.

English Revised Version
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God that hath gird me with vertu; and hath set my weie vnwemmed.

Update Bible Version
He makes my feet like hinds' [feet]: And sets me on my high places.

Webster's Bible Translation
He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], and setteth me upon my high places.

New King James Version
He makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places.

New Living Translation
He makes me as surefooted as a deer, enabling me to stand on mountain heights.

New Life Bible
He makes my feet like the feet of a deer. And He sets me on my high places.

New Revised Standard
He made my feet like the feet of a deer, and set me secure on the heights.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Planting my feet like hinds' feet , yea, on my high places, he caused me to stand:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-34) Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.

Revised Standard Version
He made my feet like hinds' feet, and set me secure on the heights.

Young's Literal Translation
Making my feet like hinds, And on my high places causeth me to stand.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me upon my high places.

Contextual Overview

²⁹ "For you, Adonai , light my lamp; Adonai , my God, lights up my darkness. ³⁰ With you I can run through a whole troop of men, with my God I can leap a wall. ³¹ "As for God, his way is perfect, the word of Adonai has been tested by fire; he shields all who take refuge in him. ³² "For who is God but Adonai ? Who is a Rock but our God? ³³ "It is God who girds me with strength; he makes my way go straight. ³⁴ He makes me swift, sure-footed as a deer, and enables me to stand on my high places. ³⁵ He trains my hands for war until my arms can bend a bow of bronze; ³⁶ "You give me your shield, which is salvation, your right hand holds me up, your humility makes me great. ³⁷ You lengthen the steps I can take, yet my ankles do not turn. ³⁸ "I pursued my enemies and overtook them, without turning back until they were destroyed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

maketh: 2 Samuel 2:18

high: Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 33:29, 2 Samuel 22:14, Habakkuk 3:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:21 - General 2 Samuel 22:35 - teacheth Psalms 27:5 - set me Isaiah 33:16 - his place Luke 15:22 - and shoes

Cross-References

Genesis 18:16
The men set out from there and looked over toward S'dom, and Avraham went with them to see them on their way.

Genesis 18:22
The men turned away from there and went toward S'dom, but Avraham remained standing before Adonai .

Genesis 31:55
But then he heard what Lavan's sons were saying: "Ya‘akov has taken away everything that our father once had. It's from what used to belong to our father that he has gotten so rich." He also saw that Lavan regarded him differently than before. Adonai said to Ya‘akov, "Return to the land of your ancestors, to your kinsmen; I will be with you." So Ya‘akov sent for Rachel and Le'ah and had them come to the field where his flock was. He said to them, "I see by the way your father looks that he feels differently toward me than before; but the God of my father has been with me. You know that I have served your father with all my strength, and that your father has belittled me and has changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to do me any damage. If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,' then all the animals gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,' then all the animals gave birth to streaked young. This is how God has taken away your father's animals and given them to me. Once, when the animals were mating, I had a dream: I looked up and there in front of me the male goats which mated with the females were streaked, speckled and mottled. Then, in the dream, the angel of God said to me, ‘Ya‘akov!' and I replied, ‘Here I am.' He continued, ‘Raise your eyes now, and look: all the male goats mating with the females are streaked, speckled and mottled; for I have seen everything Lavan has been doing to you. I am the God of Beit-El, where you anointed a standing-stone with oil, where you vowed your vow to me. Now get up, get out of this land, and return to the land where you were born.'" Rachel and Le'ah answered him, "We no longer have any inheritance from our father's possessions; and he considers us foreigners, since he has sold us; moreover, he has consumed everything he received in exchange for us. Nevertheless, the wealth which God has taken away from our father has become ours and our children's anyway; so whatever God has told you to do, do." (vi) Then Ya‘akov got up, put his sons and wives on the camels, and carried off all his livestock, along with all the riches he had accumulated, the livestock in his possession which he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, to go to Yitz'chak his father in the land of Kena‘an. Now Lavan had gone to shear his sheep, so Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father, and Ya‘akov outwitted Lavan the Arami by not telling him of his intended flight. So he fled with everything he had: he departed, crossed the [Euphrates] River and set out for the hill-country of Gil‘ad. Not until the third day was Lavan told that Ya‘akov had fled. Lavan took his kinsmen with him and spent the next seven days pursuing Ya‘akov, overtaking him in the hill-country of Gil‘ad. But God came to Lavan the Arami in a dream that night and said to him, "Be careful that you don't say anything to Ya‘akov, either good or bad." When Lavan caught up with Ya‘akov, Ya‘akov had set up camp in the hill-country; so Lavan and his kinsmen set up camp in the hill-country of Gil‘ad. Lavan said to Ya‘akov, "What do you mean by deceiving me and carrying off my daughters as if they were captives taken in war? Why did you flee in secret and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you off with joy and singing to the music of tambourines and lyres. You didn't even let me kiss my sons and daughters good-bye! What a stupid thing to do! I have it in my power to do you harm; but the God of your father spoke to me last night and said, ‘Be careful that you don't say anything to Ya‘akov, either good or bad.' Granted that you had to leave, because you longed so deeply for your father's house; but why did you steal my gods?" Ya‘akov answered Lavan, "Because I was afraid. I said, ‘Suppose you take your daughters away from me by force?' But if you find your gods with someone, that person will not remain alive. So with our kinsmen to witness, if you spot anything that I have which belongs to you, take it back." Ya‘akov did not know that Rachel had stolen them. Lavan went into Ya‘akov's tent, then into Le'ah's tent and into the tent of the two slave-girls; but he did not find them. He left Le'ah's tent and entered Rachel's tent. Now Rachel had taken the household gods, put them in the saddle of the camel and was sitting on them. Lavan felt all around the tent but did not find them. She said to her father, "Please don't be angry that I'm not getting up in your presence, but it's the time of my period." So he searched, but he didn't find the household gods. Then Ya‘akov became angry and started arguing with Lavan. "What have I done wrong?" he demanded. "What is my offense, that you have come after me in hot pursuit? You have felt around in all my stuff, but what have you found of all your household goods? Put it here, in front of my kinsmen and yours, so that they can render judgment between the two of us! I have been with you for these twenty years! Your female sheep and goats haven't aborted their young, and I haven't eaten the male animals in your flocks. If one of your flock was destroyed by a wild animal, I didn't bring the carcass to you but bore the loss myself. You demanded that I compensate you for any animal stolen, whether by day or by night. Here's how it was for me: during the day thirst consumed me, and at night the cold — my sleep fled from my eyes. These twenty years I've been in your house — I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock; and you changed my wages ten times! If the God of my father, the God of Avraham, the one whom Yitz'chak fears, had not been on my side, by now you would certainly have already sent me away with nothing! God has seen how distressed I've been and how hard I've worked, and last night he passed judgment in my favor." (vii) Lavan answered Ya‘akov, "The daughters are mine, the children are mine, the flocks are mine, and everything you see is mine! But what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne? So now, come, let's make a covenant, I and you; and let it stand as a testimony between me and you." Ya‘akov took a stone and set it upright as a standing-stone. Then Ya‘akov said to his kinsmen, "Gather some stones"; and they took stones, made a pile of them and ate there by the pile of stones. Lavan called it Y'gar-Sahaduta ["pile of witness" in Aramaic], while Ya‘akov called it Gal-‘Ed ["pile of witness" in Hebrew]. Lavan said, "This pile witnesses between me and you today." This is why it is called Gal-‘Ed and also HaMitzpah [the watchtower], because he said, "May Adonai watch between me and you when we are apart from each other. If you cause pain to my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, then, even if no one is there with us, still God is witness between me and you." Lavan also said to Ya‘akov, "Here is this pile, and here is this standing-stone, which I have set up between me and you. May this pile be a witness, and may the standing-stone be a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile to you, and you will not pass beyond this pile and this standing-stone to me, to cause harm. May the God of Avraham and also the god of Nachor, the god of their father, judge between us." But Ya‘akov swore by the One his father Yitz'chak feared. Ya‘akov offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his kinsmen to the meal. They ate the food and spent the whole night on the mountain.

Genesis 32:26
When he saw that he did not defeat Ya‘akov, he struck Ya‘akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He maketh my feet like hind's [feet],.... As light and swift as theirs, as the Targum; that is, either to flee, when there was a necessity for it, as Kimchi observes; or rather to pursue after the enemy, to run through a troop, and leap over a wall, as before; see

1 Chronicles 12:8; the same phrase is used in Habakkuk 3:19; and may be understood in a spiritual sense of that readiness and cheerfulness with which the saints run the ways of God's commandments, when their hearts are enlarged with his love and grace; and may very well be applied to Christ, who is often compared to a roe, or a young hart, for swiftness; who readily and at once engaged to come and do the will of God, and whose coming in the flesh, at the appointed time, was swift; and who made haste to do the work of God, in which he took the utmost pleasure; and who is a speedy and present help to his people in time of trouble; see Song of Solomon 2:8;

and setteth me upon my high places; the towers and fortresses, and strong and fortified places, where he was safe from his enemies; and: in a spiritual sense, may design the everlasting love of God, the covenant of grace, its blessings and promises; and Christ himself, with the fulness of grace in him, on which believers may be said to be set, when their faith is directed to them, and they live and dwell upon them; see Habakkuk 3:19; and, the words were fulfilled in Christ, when God highly exalted him at his right hand, and set him above all principalities and powers, and made him higher than the heavens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet - So Habakkuk 3:19, “He will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.” The hind is the female deer, remarkable for fleetness or swiftness. The meaning here is, that God had made him alert or active, enabling him to pursue a flying enemy, or to escape from a swift-running foe.

And setteth me upon my high places - places of safety or refuge. The idea is, that God had given him security, or had rendered him safe from danger. Compare Deuteronomy 32:13. Swiftness of foot, or ability to escape from, or to pursue an enemy, was regarded as of great value in ancient warfare. Achilles, according to the descriptions of Homer, was remarkable for it. Compare 2 Samuel 2:18; 1 Chronicles 12:8.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:33. My feet like hinds' feet] Swiftness, or speed of foot, was a necessary qualification of an ancient hero. This was of great advantage in pursuing, combating, or escaping from a fallen foe. Ποδας ωκυς Αχιλλευς, "the swiftfooted Achilles," is frequently given by Homer as a most honourable qualification of his hero.

Upon my high places. — In allusion to the hinds, antelopes, mountain goats, &c., which frequented such places, and in which they found both food and safety. God frequently preserved the life of David by means of these.