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Psalms 68:20

He is our God, the God who saves us. My Lord God saves us from death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Death;   Life;   Salvation;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Salvation;   Salvation Save Saviour;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - God;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Issues;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Liturgy;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Our God is a God who saves! The Sovereign Lord rescues us from death.
English Revised Version
God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto JEHOVAH the Lord belong the issues from death.
Update Bible Version
God is to us a God of deliverances; And to Yahweh the Lord belongs escape from death.
New Century Version
Our God is a God who saves us; the Lord God saves us from death.
New English Translation
Our God is a God who delivers; the Lord , the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.
Webster's Bible Translation
[He that is] our God [is] the God of salvation; and to GOD the Lord [belong] the issues from death.
World English Bible
God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
Amplified Bible
God is to us a God of acts of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death [setting us free].
English Standard Version
Our God is a God of salvation, and to God , the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure God is God to make men saaf; and outgoyng fro deeth is of the Lord God.
Berean Standard Bible
Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.
Contemporary English Version
You always protect us and save us from death.
American Standard Version
God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
Bible in Basic English
Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.
Complete Jewish Bible
Blessed be Adonai! Every day he bears our burden, does God, our salvation. (Selah)
Darby Translation
Our God is the God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth [even] from death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Blessed be the Lord, day by day He beareth our burden, even the God who is our salvation. Selah
King James Version (1611)
Hee that is our God, is the God of saluation; and vnto God the Lord belong the issues from death.
New Life Bible
Our God is a God Who sets us free. The way out of death belongs to God the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Our God is a God of salvation, and to God , the Lord, belongs escape from death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
This is our God, euen the God yt saueth vs: and to the Lord God belong the issues of death.
George Lamsa Translation
He that is our God is the God of salvation, the LORD God who has the power of life and death.
Good News Translation
Our God is a God who saves; he is the Lord , our Lord, who rescues us from death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The GOD we have, is a GOD of saving deeds, And, due to Yahweh, My Lord, are escapes from death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(67-21) Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.
Revised Standard Version
Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The Lorde is our Lorde for to saue vs: and all maner of wayes for death pertayneth to God the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Our God is the God of salvation; and to the Lord belong the issues from death.
Christian Standard Bible®
Our God is a God of salvation,and escape from death belongs to the Lord my Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
God is to us a God of deliverance. To the LORD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
King James Version
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.
Lexham English Bible
Our God is a God of deliverances, and to the Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.
Literal Translation
Our God is the God of salvation; and to Jehovah the Lord are the issues of death.
Young's Literal Translation
God Himself [is] to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sela. The God yt is or Sauior, eue God the LORDE by who we escape death.
New American Standard Bible
God is to us a God of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong ways of escape from death.
New King James Version
Our God is the God of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
God is to us a God of deliverances; And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.
Legacy Standard Bible
God is to us a God of salvation;And to Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.

Contextual Overview

15 Mount Bashan is a great mountain with many high peaks. 16 But, Bashan, why are you jealous of Mount Zion? That is where God has chosen to live. The Lord will live there forever. 17 With his millions of chariots, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place. 18 You went up to your high place, leading a parade of captives. You received gifts from people, even those who turned against you. The Lord God went up there to live. 19 Praise the Lord! Every day he helps us with the loads we must carry. He is the God who saves us. Selah 20 He is our God, the God who saves us. My Lord God saves us from death. 21 God will smash the heads of his enemies. He will punish those who fight against him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

our God: Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 45:17-22, Hosea 1:7, John 4:22

unto: Psalms 118:17, Psalms 118:18, Deuteronomy 32:39, 1 Samuel 2:6, John 5:21, John 5:23, John 5:28, John 5:29, John 11:25, John 11:26, Hebrews 2:14, Hebrews 2:15, Revelation 1:18, Revelation 20:1

issues: Proverbs 4:23

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - my salvation Psalms 18:46 - the God Psalms 25:5 - God Psalms 27:1 - salvation Psalms 50:3 - Our Psalms 51:14 - thou God Psalms 62:1 - from Psalms 65:5 - O God Psalms 119:22 - Remove Proverbs 21:31 - but Isaiah 17:10 - the God Ezekiel 37:23 - they be Jonah 2:9 - Salvation Philippians 1:28 - and that 2 Thessalonians 1:11 - our God Revelation 7:10 - Salvation

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[He that is] our God,.... Or "God for us" q; is on our side; and is the mighty God, able to save to the uttermost;

[is] the God of salvation; or "God for salvations" r; for the obtaining of them for his people, and giving them to them, even of every kind;

and unto God the Lord [belong] the issues from death; deliverance from it; Christ has abolished it, and him that had the power of it; has delivered himself from it, and will deliver all his people from it, though they become subject to it, as well as from eternal death; for he has the keys of hell and death in his hands. Some render the words, "to God the Lord belong the issues", or "ways unto death" s; he has various ways of bringing persons to death, of destroying his and his people's enemies; and so Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and Kimchi interpret it; though the following words seem to be opposed to these: the Heathens had a notion that the power of death belonged to God; hence they had a deity called the god of death, "Dites" t.

q האל לנו "Deus nobis, vel est nobis", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator. r אל למושעות "Deus ad salutes", Pagninus, Montanus, c. s למות תוצאות "ad mortem exitus", Pagninus, Montanus "mille viae laethi", Lucan. t Macrob. in Somn. Scip. l. 1. c. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that is our God is the God of salvation - literally, “God is for us a God of salvation.” That is, The God whom we worship is the God from whom salvation comes, and who brings salvation to us. It is not a vain thing that we serve him, for he is the only being who can save us, and he will save us.

And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death - The “outgoings” or “escapes” from death. That is, He only can save from death. The Hebrew word means, properly, a going forth, a deliverance; then, a place of going forth as a gate, Ezekiel 48:30; a fountain, Proverbs 4:23. Probably the only idea intended here by the psalmist was, that safety or deliverance from death proceeds solely from God. The sentiment, however, is true in a larger sense. All that pertains to deliverance from death, all that prepares for it, all that makes it easy to be borne, all that constitutes a rescue from its pains and horrors, all that follows death in a higher and more blessed world, all that makes death “final,” and places us in a condition where death is no more to be dreaded - all this belongs to God. All this is under his control. He only can enable us to bear death; he only can conduct us from a bed of death to a world where we shall never die.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 68:20. The issues frown death. — The going out or exodus from death - from the land of Egypt and house of bondage. Or the expression may mean, Life and death are in the hand of God. "He can create, and he destroy."


 
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