Psalm 94:17 {93:17}
Good News Translation
If the LORD had not helped me, I would have gone quickly to the land of silence.

New Revised Standard Version
If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.

Contemporary English Version
If you had not helped me, LORD, I would soon have gone to the land of silence.

New American Bible
If the LORD were not my help, I would long have been silent in the grave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell.

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Psalm 118:13 Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: but the Lord supported me.

Psalm 124:1,2 A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say: . . .

Psalm 125:1 A gradual canticle. They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion: he shall not be moved for ever that dwelleth

Psalm 142:4,5 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me. Flight hath failed me: and there is no one that hath regard to my soul. . . .

John 16:32 Behold, the hour cometh, and it is now come, that you shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation which came to us in Asia: that we were pressed out of measure above our strength, so that we were weary even of life. . . .

2 Timothy 4:16,17 At my first answer, no man stood with me: but all forsook me. May it not be laid to their charge! . . .

almost.

Psalm 13:3 How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Psalm 31:17 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

Psalm 115:17 The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

Context
The LORD Will Not Forget His People
16Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity? 17Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell.18If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.…
Cross References
Psalm 31:17
Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.

Psalm 124:1
A gradual canticle. If it had not been that the Lord was with us, let Israel now say:

Psalm 124:2
If it had not been that the Lord was with us, When men rose up against us,

Psalm 94:16
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