Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 68:20
20Our God is a God of salvation, and escape from death belongs to the Lord my Lord.
Psalms 68:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.
- New International Version (NIV)Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign Lord comes escape from death.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Our God is the God of salvation; And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.
Context of Psalms 68:20
18You ascended to the heights, taking away captives; you received gifts from people, even from the rebellious, so that the Lord God might dwell there. 19Blessed be the Lord! Day after day he bears our burdens; God is our salvation.Selah Our God is a God of salvation, and escape from death belongs to the Lord my Lord. 21Surely God crushes the heads of his enemies, the hairy brow of one who goes on in his guilty acts. 22The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea
Read all of Psalms 68Psalms 68:20 word by word
הָ֤אֵ֣ל׀ לָנוּ֮ אֵ֤ל לְֽמוֹשָׁ֫ע֥וֹת וְלֵיהוִ֥ה אֲדֹנָ֑י לַ֝מָּ֗וֶת תּוֹצָאֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 68:20
- Isaiah 12:2Indeed, God is my salvation; I will trust him and not be afraid, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation.”
- Isaiah 45:17Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated for all eternity.
- Hosea 1:7But I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will deliver them by the Lord their God. I will not deliver them by bow, sword, or war, or by horses and cavalry.
- John 4:22You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.
- Psalms 118:17I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the Lord has done.
- Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I alone am he; there is no God but me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal. No one can rescue anyone from my power.
- 1 Samuel 2:6The Lord brings death and gives life; he sends some down to Sheol, and he raises others up.
- John 5:21And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom he wants.
- John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live.
- Hebrews 2:14Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through his death he might destroy the one holding the power of death — that is, the devil —
- Hebrews 2:15and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.
- Revelation 1:18and the Living One. I was dead, but look — I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.
- Revelation 20:1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven holding the key to the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
- Proverbs 4:23Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.
Commentaries on Psalms 68:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20The issues from 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."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20He 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-21Verses 15-21 The ascension of Christ must here be meant, and thereto it is applied, Ep 4:8. He received as the purchase of his death, the gifts needful for the conversion of sinners, and the salvation of believers. These he continually bestows, even on rebellious men, that the Lord God might dwell among them, as their Friend and Father. He gave gifts to men. Having received power to give eternal life, the Lord Jesus bestows it on as many as were given…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 19-20God cares for his people like a shepherd, and the people praise him.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-2119-21. God daily and fully supplies us. The issues or escapes from death are under His control, who is the God that saves us, and destroys His and our enemies.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 68
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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