Psalm 68:20 “Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from deat…”

Psalm 68:20

Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

World English Bible

God is to us a God of deliverance. To GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

American Standard Version

God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.

Geneva Bible 1599

This is our God, euen the God that saueth vs: and to the Lord God belong the issues of death.

Darby Translation

Our God is the God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth [even] from death.

Young's Literal Translation

God Himself [is] to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

Bible in Basic English

Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

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Cross references

“our God”

Isaiah 12:2 Isaiah 45:17–22 Hosea 1:7 John 4:22

Isaiah 12:2 · BSB

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.”

Isaiah 45:17–22 · BSB

But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.

Hosea 1:7 · BSB

Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”

John 4:22 · BSB

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

“unto”

Deuteronomy 32:39 Revelation 1:18 John 5:21 1 Samuel 2:6 Revelation 20:1 John 5:23

Deuteronomy 32:39 · BSB

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.

Revelation 1:18 · BSB

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.

John 5:21 · BSB

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

1 Samuel 2:6 · BSB

The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

Revelation 20:1 · BSB

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.

John 5:23 · BSB

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

“issues”

Proverbs 4:23

Proverbs 4:23 · BSB

Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.

Also

Psalm 56:13

Psalm 56:13 · BSB

For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah

21Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

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