Psalms 30:1-3

I will exalt You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me. O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me. O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 30

7 songs meet this passage

  • “You escaped what I've escaped”

    N****s in Paris · Jay-Z

    strains against Psalms 30:1-3

    The Psalm credits God for rescue from the pit; here the rescue is credited entirely to the artists' own hustle and money.

  • Look What You Made Me Do · Taylor Swift

    resonates with Psalms 30:1

    There's a real echo of being lifted from humiliation and attack, though here the rising is for triumph over enemies rather than gratitude to God.

  • Angel · Amanda Perez

    resonates with Psalms 30:2

    The whole song's cry-and-plea structure echoes this pattern of crying out to God for healing in distress, even without theological depth.

  • “I was so close to bein' dead, yeah”

    GHOST! · Kid Cudi

    resonates with Psalms 30:2-3

    A brush with death that becomes reflection mirrors the psalmist's gratitude for being pulled back from the brink, though Cudi stops short of naming who did the pulling.

  • “my chance has come at last”

    There Is a Light That Never Goes Out · The Smiths

    strains against Psalms 30:2-3

    The narrator flirts with death as opportunity; the psalmist instead cries out to God in the pit and is drawn back up from it.

  • “I was wishin' that I would die”

    Amazing · Aerosmith

    resonates with Psalms 30:2-3

    The psalmist, like the singer, cries out from the pit of despair and is pulled back from death; both move from darkness toward rescue.

  • Through the Wire · Kanye West

    resonates with Psalms 30:2-3

    The whole song is a restless retelling of being pulled back from death, the kind of testimony this psalm was written to voice.

Elsewhere in Psalms 30