New English Translation
Psalms 68:20
20Our God is a God who delivers; the Lord, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.
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 ascend on high, you have taken many captives. You receive tribute from men, including even sinful rebels. Indeed the Lord God lives there! 19The Lord deserves praise! Day after day he carries our burden, the God who delivers us. (Selah) Our God is a God who delivers; the Lord, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death. 21Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion. 22The Lord says, “I will retrieve them 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 12:2Look, God is my deliverer! I will trust in him and not fear. For the Lord gives me strength and protects me; he has become my deliverer.”
- Isaiah 45:17Israel will be delivered once and for all by the Lord; you will never again be ashamed or humiliated.
- Hosea 1:7But I will have pity on the nation of Judah. I will deliver them by the Lord their God; I will not deliver them by the warrior’s bow, by sword, by military victory, by chariot horses, or by chariots.”
- John 4:22You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
- Psalms 118:17I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the Lord has done.
- Deuteronomy 32:39“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the Lord, “and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.
- 1 Samuel 2:6The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.
- John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.
- John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
- Hebrews 2:14Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),
- Hebrews 2:15and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.
- Revelation 1:18and the one who lives! I was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades!
- Revelation 20:1Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.
- Proverbs 4:23Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources 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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