Psalms 18:33

JPS Old Testament

The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way 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.

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

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.

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 Thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God doth lighten my darkness. ³⁰ For by Thee I run upon a troop; and by my God do I scale a wall. ³¹ As for God, His way is perfect; ³² For who is God, save the LORD? And who is a Rock, except our God? ³³ The God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way straight; ³⁴ Who maketh my feet like hinds', and setteth me upon my high places; ³⁵ Who traineth my hands for war, so that mine arms do bend a bow of brass. ³⁶ Thou hast also given me Thy shield of salvation, and Thy right hand hath holden me up; and Thy condescension hath made me great. ³⁷ Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped. ³⁸ I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them; neither did I turn back till they were consumed.

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
And the men rose up from thence, and looked out toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

Genesis 18:22
And the men turned from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

Genesis 31:55
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="jps" data-ref="gen.31.1" class="versetxt"> And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying: 'Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this wealth.' And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as beforetime. And the LORD said unto Jacob: 'Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.' And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock, and said unto them: 'I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me. And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. And your father hath mocked me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. If he said thus: The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said thus: The streaked shall be thy wages; then bore all the flock streaked. Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me. And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled. And the angel of God said unto me in the dream: Jacob; and I said: Here am I. And he said: Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee. I am the God of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow a vow unto Me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.' And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him: 'Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house? Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price. For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.' Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels; and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father unto the land of Canaan. Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's. And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled. So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead. And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead. And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.' And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain; and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountain of Gilead. And Laban said to Jacob: 'What hast thou done, that thou hast outwitted me, and carried away my daughters as though captives of the sword? Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and outwit me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp; and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke unto me yesternight, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?' And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force. With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.'--For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.-- And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not. And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found not the teraphim. And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me? Whereas thou hast felt about all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us two. These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten. That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bore the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. Thus I was: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes. These twenty years have I been in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been on my side, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and gave judgment yesternight.' And Laban answered and said unto Jacob: 'The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that thou seest is mine; and what can I do this day for these my daughters, or for their children whom they have borne? And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.' And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. And Jacob said unto his brethren: 'Gather stones'; and they took stones, and made a heap. And they did eat there by the heap. And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed. And Laban said: 'This heap is witness between me and thee this day.' Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; and Mizpah, for he said: 'The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives beside my daughters, no man being with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.' And Laban said to Jacob: 'Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set up betwixt me and thee. This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm. The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us.' And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread; and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain.

Genesis 32:26
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled 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.