Psalms 68:20
18 You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah
Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.
21 Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.
22 The Lord said, “I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them up from the depths of the sea,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.
- KJV
- He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
- WEB
- God is to us a God of deliverance. To GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
- ASV
- God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
- DARBY
- Our God is the God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth [even] from death.
- BLB
- God [is] unto us a God of salvation, and from YHWH the Lord [is] [our] coming forth from death.
- ÅB
- Gud er oss en Gud til frelse, og hos Herren, Israels Gud, er det utganger fra døden.
- OTB
- Vår Gud er en Gud som frelser;
Til Den Suverene Herre tilhører veier til flukt fra døden. - B1930
- Gud er oss en Gud til frelse, og hos Herren, Israels Gud, er det utganger fra døden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Read in contextRevelation 1:18
the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
Read in contextIsaiah 12:2
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
Read in contextJohn 5:21
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
Read in context1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
Read in contextPsalms 118:17–18
I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
Read in contextPsalms 56:13
For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
Read in contextJohn 5:28–29
Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
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