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God’s Enemies Are Scattered

Psalms 68:20

In 11 translations

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 Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
ASV
God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.
LSV
God Himself [is] to us a God for deliverances, || And YHWH Lord has the outgoings of death.
YLT
God Himself [is] to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.
DBY
Our God is the God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth [even] from death.ElEl
DRC67:21
Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.
GNV
This is our God, euen the God that saueth vs: and to the Lord God belong the issues of death.
JPS68:21
God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues of death.
LXXE67:21
Our God is the God of salvation; and to the Lord belong the issues from death.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC68:21
הָ֤אֵ֣ל ׀ לָנוּ֮ אֵ֤ל לְֽמוֹשָׁ֫ע֥וֹת וְלֵיהוִ֥ה אֲדֹנָ֑י לַ֝מָּ֗וֶת תּוֹצָאֽוֹת׃KJV:Ps.68.20
LXX-Br67:21
Ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ σώζειν, καὶ τοῦ Κυρίου αἱ διέξοδοι τοῦ θανάτου.

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  • Deuteronomy 32:39See 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 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
  • Isaiah 12:2Surely 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.”
  • John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
  • 1 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
  • Psalms 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
  • Psalms 118:17–18I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done. The LORD disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.
  • John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies. And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • John 5:28–29Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out—those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection…
  • Isaiah 45:17–22But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting. For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and…
  • Hosea 1:7Yet 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.”
  • Revelation 20:1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
  • Hebrews 2:14–15Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in…
  • Proverbs 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
  • John 4:22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
  • John 5:23so 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.

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  • 68:21 in some Bibles
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