Psalms 18:36

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You make a spacious place beneath me for my steps,and my ankles do not give way.

Hebrew Names Version
You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

King James Version
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

English Standard Version
You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

New Century Version
You give me a better way to live, so I live as you want me to.

New English Translation
You widen my path; my feet do not slip.

Amplified Bible
You enlarge the path beneath me and make my steps secure, So that my feet will not slip.

New American Standard Bible
You enlarge my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.

World English Bible
You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast enlarged my steps vnder mee, and mine heeles haue not slid.

Legacy Standard Bible
You enlarge my steps under me,And my ankles have not given way.

Berean Standard Bible
You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.

Contemporary English Version
You clear the way for me, and now I won't stumble.

Complete Jewish Bible
"You give me your shield, which is salvation, your right hand holds me up, your humility makes me great.

Darby Translation
Thou didst enlarge my steps under me, and mine ankles have not wavered.

Easy-to-Read Version
You cleared a path for my feet so that I could walk without stumbling.

George Lamsa Translation
Thou hast steadied my legs under me, that my ankles may not be weakened.

Good News Translation
You have kept me from being captured, and I have never fallen.

Lexham English Bible
You enlarged my step under me, and my ankles did not slip.

Literal Translation
You have made a wide place under me for my steps, so that my ankles have not slipped.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast made rowme ynough vnder me for to go, that my fote steppes shulde not slyde.

American Standard Version
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.

Bible in Basic English
You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast also given me Thy shield of salvation, and Thy right hand hath holden me up; and Thy condescension hath made me great.

King James Version (1611)
Thou hast enlarged my steppes vnder me; that my feete did not slippe.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast made me roomth inough for to go on: so that my feete haue not slypt.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou has made room for my goings under me, and by footsteps did not fail.

English Revised Version
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thou hast youe to me the kyueryng of thin helthe; and thi riythond hath vptake me. And thi chastisyng amendide me in to the ende; and thilke chastisyng of thee schal teche me.

Update Bible Version
You have enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

New King James Version
You enlarged my path under me, So my feet did not slip.

New Living Translation
You have made a wide path for my feet to keep them from slipping.

New Life Bible
You make the road wide for my steps, and my feet have not tripped.

New Revised Standard
You gave me a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou didst widen my stepping-places under me, so that, mine ankles, faltered not.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-37) Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; and my feet are not weakened.

Revised Standard Version
Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou enlargest my step under me, And mine ankles have not slidden.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You enlarge my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.

Contextual Overview

³⁰ What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God -direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it. ³¹Is there any god like God ? Are we not at bedrock? Is not this the God who armed me, then aimed me in the right direction? Now I run like a deer; I'm king of the mountain. He shows me how to fight; I can bend a bronze bow! You protect me with salvation-armor; you hold me up with a firm hand, caress me with your gentle ways. You cleared the ground under me so my footing was firm. When I chased my enemies I caught them; I didn't let go till they were dead men. I nailed them; they were down for good; then I walked all over them. You armed me well for this fight, you smashed the upstarts. You made my enemies turn tail, and I wiped out the haters. They cried "uncle" but Uncle didn't come; They yelled for God and got no for an answer. I ground them to dust; they gusted in the wind. I threw them out, like garbage in the gutter. ⁴³You rescued me from a squabbling people; you made me a leader of nations. People I'd never heard of served me; the moment they got wind of me they listened. The foreign devils gave up; they came on their bellies, crawling from their hideouts. ⁴⁶Live, God ! Blessings from my Rock, my free and freeing God, towering! This God set things right for me and shut up the people who talked back. He rescued me from enemy anger, he pulled me from the grip of upstarts, He saved me from the bullies. ⁴⁹That's why I'm thanking you, God , all over the world. That's why I'm singing songs that rhyme your name. God's king takes the trophy; God's chosen is beloved. I mean David and all his children— always.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

enlarged: Psalms 4:1, Job 18:7, Job 36:16, Luke 12:50, Luke 24:46-48

feet: Heb. ancles, 2 Samuel 22:37, Proverbs 4:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:20 - Blessed Psalms 17:5 - that Psalms 18:19 - brought Psalms 30:7 - by thy Psalms 40:2 - established Psalms 119:32 - enlarge

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,.... Which is opposed to those straitened circumstances in which the psalmist was, Psalms 18:4; and is expressive of deliverance from his enemies, by whom he was surrounded, besieged, and shut up; see Psalms 31:8; and of freedom of walking at large, without being straitened for room, or interrupted by others, Proverbs 4:12; and of safety in standing; all which is true in a spiritual sense of believers in Christ, who being delivered by him out of the hands of their enemies, serve the Lord without fear in righteousness and holiness; walk at liberty by faith in Christ, and up and down in the name of the Lord their God; and have their feet established upon the Rock of ages, that sure and large foundation, Christ, from which there is no danger of slipping and falling; as follows;

that my feet did not slip; so as to fall and perish; for sometimes the steps of the saints are well nigh slipped; yea, in some sense they stumble; slip, and fall, but not so as to be utterly cast down and perish eternally; the bottom on which they are is so broad, and the foundation so sure, that it is not possible they should. The words will bear to be applied to Christ, who was in very pressed and straitened circumstances, when beset with the bulls of Bashan, encompassed with dogs, and enclosed with the assembly of the wicked; and was in slippery places, when he sunk in deep mire where there is no standing,

Psalms 22:12; but now being delivered from all this, he is brought, as in Psalms 18:19, into a large place, into heaven, and made higher than the heavens, and is set down at the right hand of God, from whence he can never be moved.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me - The idea here is, “Thou hast made room for my feet, so that I have been enabled to walk without hindrance or obstruction. So in Psalms 31:8, “Thou hast set my feet in a large room.” The idea is, that he was before straitened, compressed, hindered in his goings, but that now all obstacles had been taken out of the way, and he could walk freely.

That my feet did not slip - Margin, mine ancles. The Hebrew word here rendered in the text feet, and in the margin ancles, means properly a joint; small joint; especially the ancle. The reference here is to the ancle, the joint that is so useful in walking, and that is so liable to be sprained or dislocated. The meaning is that he had been enabled to walk firmly; that he did not limp. Before, he had been like one whose ancles are weak or sprained; now he was able to tread firmly. The divine favor given to him was as if God had given strength to a lame man to walk firmly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:36. Enlarged my steps — See on Psalms 18:19. From the hand of God he had continual prosperity; and while he walked with God no enemy was able to prevail against him. He details his successes in the following verses.