Psalms 68:20
18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.
22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again 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, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
Read in contextRevelation 1:18
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Read in contextIsaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Read in contextJohn 5:21
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Read in context1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
Read in contextPsalms 118:17–18
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 56:13
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Read in contextJohn 5:28–29
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
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