Psalm 66:9

Modern

He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.

Traditional

Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Literal

…the One putting our soul among the living and not having given our feet to slip.

Latin

…qui posuit animam meam ad vitam, et non dedit in commotionem pedes meos.

Hebrew

English

He preserves our lives and keeps our feet from slipping.

God guides his people into wisdom and away from foolishness (Psalms 17:5; 37:31; 121:3).

The orderly lives of the redeemed reflect the order of God’s world. The Lord protects them from evil and purifies them.

This anonymous psalm includes two hymns (Psalm 66:1–12, 13–20) that praise God for saving his people.

Theme notes and profiles

Psalm 121:3
He will not allow your foot to slip; your Protector will not slumber.
Psalm 112:6
Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.
Psalm 94:18
If I say, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O LORD, supports me.
1 Samuel 2:9
He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
Psalm 37:23–24
The steps of a man are ordered by the LORD who takes delight in his journey.
Colossians 3:3–4
For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
1 Samuel 25:29
And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.
Psalm 22:29
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him—even those unable to preserve their lives.
Acts 17:28
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
Psalm 62:2
He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.
Psalm 125:3
For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
Psalm 62:6
He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress; I will not be shaken.