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Psalms 48:14
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For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
For this God is our God forever and ever: He will be our guide [even] to death.
This God is our God forever and ever. He will guide us from now on.
For God, our God, is our defender forever! He guides us!
For this God [is] our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide [even] to death.
For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even until death.
that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.
For this is God, oure God, in to withouten ende, and in to the world of world; he schal gouerne vs in to worldis.
For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
"Our God is like this forever and will always guide us."
For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.
Because this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide.
Note its ramparts, pass through its citadels, so that you can tell generations to come that such is God, our God forever; he will guide us eternally.
For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death.
This God is our God forever and ever. He will lead us from now to the end of time!
Mark ye well her ramparts, traverse her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. For such is God, our God, for ever and ever; He will guide us eternally.
For this God is our God for euer, and euer; he will be our guide euen vnto death.
This is God, our God forever and ever. He will show us the way until death.
that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will be our guide forever.
For this God is our God for euer and euer: he shall be our guide vnto the death.
For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death.
"This God is our God forever and ever; he will lead us for all time to come."
For, this God, is our God, to times age-abiding and beyond, He himself, will conduct us till death.
(47-15) For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.
that this is God, our God for ever and ever. He will be our guide for ever.
For this God is our God for euer and euer: he wyll be our guide vnto death.
For this is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide for evermore.
“This God, our God forever and ever—he will always lead us.”
For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
that this is God, our God forever and ever. He himself will guide us until death.
For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even unto death.
That this God [is] our God -- To the age and for ever, He -- he doth lead us over death!
For this God is or God for euer & euer, and he shal allwaie be or gyde.
For such is God, Our God forever and ever; He will lead us until death.
14 For this is God,Our God forever and ever;He will be our guideEven to death. [fn]
For such is God, Our God forever and ever; He will guide us until death.
For this is God,Our God forever and ever;He will guide us over death.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
this God: Psalms 16:2, Psalms 31:14, Psalms 73:24, Psalms 73:26, Lamentations 3:21
guide: Psalms 23:3, Psalms 23:4, Psalms 25:9, Psalms 73:24, Proverbs 8:20, Isaiah 58:11, John 16:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 24:48 - led me Numbers 9:22 - abode 2 Samuel 7:24 - art become 2 Chronicles 32:22 - guided Psalms 50:3 - Our Psalms 67:6 - our own Psalms 91:2 - my God Psalms 95:7 - For he Song of Solomon 2:16 - beloved Isaiah 46:4 - even to hoar Jeremiah 3:4 - the guide Jeremiah 31:1 - will Ezekiel 48:35 - The Lord Micah 4:5 - the name Matthew 2:22 - being John 20:17 - your God 2 Thessalonians 1:11 - our God Revelation 4:9 - who
Cross-References
Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, "God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father's family."
Joseph's sons, born in the land of Egypt, were Manasseh and Ephraim. Their mother was Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, the priest of On.
But Joseph was upset when he saw that his father placed his right hand on Ephraim's head. So Joseph lifted it to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.
"No, my father," he said. "This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head."
But his father refused. "I know, my son; I know," he replied. "Manasseh will also become a great people, but his younger brother will become even greater. And his descendants will become a multitude of nations."
"Your right hand, O Lord , is glorious in power. Your right hand, O Lord , smashes the enemy.
When you present the Levites before the Lord , the people of Israel must lay their hands on them.
Yes, I have claimed the Levites in place of all the firstborn sons of Israel.
Now Joshua son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him, doing just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
A psalm of David.
The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit in the place of honor at my right hand until I humble your enemies, making them a footstool under your feet."Gill's Notes on the Bible
For this God [is] our God for ever and ever,.... Who is spoken of throughout the whole psalm as greatly to be praised, as well as is known in Zion, as the stability, security, and protection of her. This is said as pointing unto him as if visible, as Christ is God manifest in the flesh, now in Gospel times, to which this psalm belongs; as distinguishing him from all others, from the gods of the Gentiles, rejected by the people of God; as claiming an interest in him as their covenant God; as exulting in the view of such relation to him; as suggesting how happy they were on this account; and especially since this relation will always continue, being founded in an everlasting covenant, and arising from the unchangeable love of God;
he will be our guide, [even] unto death; the Lord orders the steps of the righteous, holds them by the right hand, and guides them with his counsel and in judgment: Christ, the great Shepherd of the flock, feeds them, as the antitype of David, according to the integrity of his heart, and guides them by the skilfulness of his hands; he guides their feet in the ways of peace, life, and salvation, by himself; he leads them into green pastures, beside the still waters, and unto fountains of living waters: the Spirit of the Lord leads them to the fulness of Christ; guides them into all truth, as it is in him; directs them into his and his Father's love, and leads them on to the land of uprightness. And this guide is an everlasting one; "even unto death", or "in death", or "above death" k; so as not to be hurt of the second death. He guides not only to the brink of Jordan's river, but through the deep waters of it, and never leaves till he has landed them safe on the shores of eternity: and some, as Aben Ezra, render the word as if it was ×¢××××ת, "for ever"; and others, as Abendana observes, render it "secretly"; the Lord sometimes leading his people in ways dark and hidden to them: and others give the sense of it, "as in the days of youth"; that is, God is the guide of his people in old age as in youth; he is always their guide, and ever will be: to which sense incline R. Moses in Aben Ezra, others in Kimchi and Abendana, and as also Jarchi and the Chaldee paraphrase; but Kimchi and Ben Melech render it as we do, "unto death", or "unto our death".
k ×¢× ××ת "super mortem", Montanus; "supra mortem", Cocceius, Gussetius, Michaelis; so Syr. vers. "in ipsa morte", Pfeiffer, Dub. Ver. loc. 66.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For this God is our God forever and ever - The God who has thus made his abode in the city, and who has manifested himself as its prorector. It is our comfort to reflect that such a God is âourâ God; that he has manifested himself as our friend; that we may habitually feel that he is our own. And he is not only our God now, but he will be such for ever and ever. A feeling that the true God is âourâ God - that he is ours and that we are his - always carries with it the idea that this is to be âforever;â that what is true now in this respect, will be true to all eternity. He is not a God for the present only, but for all time to come; not merely for this world, but for that unending duration which awaits us beyond the tomb.
He will be our guide even unto death - The Septuagint and the Vulgate render this âhe will rule or govern ÏÎ¿Î¹Î¼Î±Î½ÎµÎ¹Í poimanei - reget) forever.â The more correct rendering, however, is that in our version, which is a literal translation of the Hebrew. Some have translated it upon death, ×¢×Ö¾××ת âal-muÌth; others, beyond death; but the true idea is that he will be our guide, or will conduct us all along through life; that he will never forsake us until the close has come; that he will accompany us faithfully to the end. The thought does not, of course, âexcludeâ the idea that he will be our guide - our protector - our friend - beyond death; but it is simply that as long as we live on the earth, we may have the assurance that he will lead and guide us. This he will do in behalf of those who put their trust in him
(a) by the counsels of His word;
(b) by the influences of His Spirit;
(c) by His providential interpositions;
(d) by special help in special trials;
(e) by shedding light upon our path when in perplexity and doubt; and
(f) by support and direction when we tread that dark and to us unknown way which conducts to the grave.
Man needs nothing more for this life than the confident assurance that he has the Eternal God for his guide, and that he will never be left or forsaken by Him in any possible situation in which he may be placed. If God, by His own hand, will conduct me through this world, and lead me safely through the dark valley - that valley which lies at the end of every travelerâs path - I have nothing to fear beyond.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 48:14. For this God — Who did all these wonderful things, -
Is our God — He is our portion, and he has taken us for his people.
He will be our guide — Through all the snares and difficulties of life, -
Even unto death — He will never leave us; and we, by his grace, will never abandon him. He is just such a God as we need; infinite in mercy, goodness, and truth. He is our Father, and we are the sons and daughters of God Almighty. Even unto and in death, he will be our portion.
ANALYSIS OF THE FORTY-EIGHTH PSALM
Under the type of Jerusalem is set down the happiness of the Church, which is always protected by the Divine favour. There are three parts in this Psalm: -
I. The excellences and privileges of the city of God, Psalms 48:1-3.
II. A narration of a miraculous deliverance she obtained, and the terror that fell upon her enemies, Psalms 48:4-8.
III. An exhortation to consider it, and to praise God, Psalms 48:9-14.
I. The psalmist begins with a maxim: "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised." Great in himself; and greatly to be praised for all things, in all places; but especially in the city of our God, in the mountain of holiness.
Then he descends to set forth the excellences and ornaments of the Church.
1. It is "the city of God," built and governed by him, and in it he resides.
2. "It is a holy mountain:" The religion in it is holy; the people, a holy people.
3. "It is beautiful for situation:" God has put his beauty upon it.
4. "The joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion:" The joy and ornament of all the land of Judea then, and afterwards of the whole world, because the law was to come out of Zion.
5. "It is the city of the great King," i.e., God. He founded, and rules in it.
6. "God is known in her palaces:" In her is the knowledge of God; yea, and by an experimental knowledge, he is found to be an asylum, a sure refuge.
II. And it is well that it is so; for Jerusalem, i.e., the Church, has many and great enemies, which (Psalms 48:5) the prophet begins to describe; and desires that notice may be taken of them, for he points them out with "Lo! or Behold!"
1. They are many and powerful. They were "kings," a plurality of them.
2. Confederate kings: "The kings were assembled." United power is the more effectual.
But all the endeavours of those kings, those confederate kings, came to nothing.
1. "They passed by together:" together they came, together they vanished.
2. "They saw - they marvelled:" They saw the strength of this city, and wondered how it could be so strangely delivered out of their hands.
3. On this they were troubled, they trembled, and hasted away. Fear took hold upon them; which the prophet illustrates by a double similitude: 1. By a travailing woman; "Fear took hold upon them, and pain, as of a woman in travail." 2. By the fear of mariners at sea, when euroclydon threatens to destroy their ship; their amazement was such "as when thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind."
III. In this third part of the Psalm there are two especial points: -
A grateful acknowledgment of God's protection of his Church: "As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of our God." We have heard that he will protect this city, and we see that he hath done it; and persuaded we are that he will always do it: "God will establish it for ever."
2. And this shall never be forgotten by us: "We have thought of thy loving-kindness in the midst of thy temple."
3. And so thought of it as to praise thee for it: "According to thy name so is thy praise; thy right hand is full of righteousness." All the earth shall know that thou dost help with thy powerful hand thy afflicted and oppressed people. Thou wilt punish their adversaries, "for thy right hand is full of righteousness - and justice."
The second point of this third part is an exhortation to God's people.
1. That they exult and rejoice for what God does for them: "Let Mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments," in defending thy Church, and punishing their enemies.
2. That they take especial notice of his miraculous deliverance of Jerusalem; that, notwithstanding the army was great that lay against it, yet no harm was done: "Walk about Zion, tell the towers thereof; mark well her bulwarks, and her palaces." See whether they be not all standing and entire.
3. And do it for this end: "That you may tell it to the generation following." Leave it on record how miraculously God hath delivered you.
4. For this there are two strong reasons: 1. "For this God," who protects and defends us, "is our God for ever." 2. "He will be our guide unto death." He will not leave us when all the world leaves us. In the time in which we need him most, we shall find him most powerfully present to help us. Therefore, exult, rejoice, mark it; and make it known to the generations to come.
