Quotes about Deliverance

For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.

You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

who frees me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near,

For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.

When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”

Meanwhile a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Do you see this entire great army? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this very day, and you will know that I am the LORD.’”