Psalm 68:20 {67:21}
Good News Translation
Our God is a God who saves; he is the LORD, our Lord, who rescues us from death.

New Revised Standard Version
Our God is a God of salvation, and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Contemporary English Version
You always protect us and save us from death.

New American Bible
Our God is a God who saves; escape from death is the LORD God’s.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

our God

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my saviour, I will deal confidently, and will not fear: because the Lord is my strength, and my praise, and he is become my salvation.

Isaiah 45:17-22 Israel is saved in the Lord with an eternal salvation: you shall not be confounded, and you shall not be ashamed for ever and ever. . . .

Hosea 1:7 And I will have mercy on the house of Juda, and I will save them by the Lord, their God: and I will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.

John 4:22 You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

unto

Psalm 118:17,18 I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

1 Samuel 2:6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

John 5:21,23,28,29 For as the Father raiseth up the dead and giveth life: so the Son also giveth life to whom he will. . . .

John 11:25,26 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: . . .

Hebrews 2:14 Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

Hebrews 2:15 And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.

Revelation 1:18 And alive, and was dead. And behold I am living for ever and ever and have the keys of death and of hell.

Revelation 20:1 And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

issues

Proverbs 4:23 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
19Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make our journey prosperous to us. 20Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.21But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.…
Cross References
Exodus 18:10
And he said: Blessed is the Lord, who hath delivered his people out of the hand of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 32:39
See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

Psalm 49:15
But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

Psalm 56:13
Because thou hast delivered my soul from death, my feet from falling: that I may please in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

Psalm 106:43
Many times did he deliver them. But they provoked him with their counsel: and they were brought low by their iniquities.

Habakkuk 3:13
Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people: for salvation with thy Christ. Thou struckest the head of the house of the wicked: thou hast laid bare his foundation even to the neck.

Psalm 68:19
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