Psalm 68:20
New International Version
Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.

New Living Translation
Our God is a God who saves! The Sovereign LORD rescues us from death.

English Standard Version
Our God is a God of salvation, and to GOD, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

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

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

New King James Version
Our God is the God of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.

New American Standard Bible
God is to us a God of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong ways of escape from death.

NASB 1995
God is to us a God of deliverances; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.

NASB 1977
God is to us a God of deliverances; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.

Legacy Standard Bible
God is to us a God of salvation; And to Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.

Amplified Bible
God is to us a God of acts of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death [setting us free].

Christian Standard Bible
Our God is a God of salvation, and escape from death belongs to the LORD my Lord.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Our God is a God of salvation, and escape from death belongs to the Lord GOD.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH is God; Lord of death is The Exodus.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Our God is the God of salvation; and to the Lord belong the issues from death.

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

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

English Revised Version
God is unto us a God of deliverances; and unto JEHOVAH the Lord belong the issues from death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Our God is the God of victories. The Almighty LORD is our escape from death.

Good News Translation
Our God is a God who saves; he is the LORD, our Lord, who rescues us from death.

International Standard Version
God is for us the God of our deliverance. The Lord GOD rescues us from death.

JPS Tanakh 1917
God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto GOD the Lord belong the issues of death.

Literal Standard Version
God Himself [is] to us a God for deliverances, | And YHWH Lord has the outgoings of death.

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

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

NET Bible
Our God is a God who delivers; the LORD, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death.

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

New Heart English Bible
God is to us a God of deliverance. To the LORD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Webster's Bible Translation
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and to GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

World English Bible
God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Young's Literal Translation
God Himself is to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, the God of our salvation. Selah 20Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death. 21Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.…

Cross References
Exodus 18:10
Jethro declared, "Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 32:39
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.

Psalm 49:15
But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

Psalm 56:13
For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

Psalm 106:43
Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

Habakkuk 3:13
You went forth for the salvation of Your people, to save Your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked and stripped him from head to toe. Selah


Treasury of Scripture

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

our God

Isaiah 12:2
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

Isaiah 45:17-22
But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end…

Hosea 1:7
But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

unto

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

Deuteronomy 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

issues

Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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Psalm 68
1. A prayer at the removing of the ark
4. An exhortation to praise God for his mercies
7. for his care of the church
19. for his great works














(20) He that is.--The insertion is unnecessary. Render, God unto us (i.e., our God) is a God of salvation.

Issues from death.--Literally, for death goings out. The same word rendered issues in Proverbs 4:23, there means sources. Here it will mean sources of death, or escapes from death as we connect the clause with what precedes or follows; Jehovah would provide an issue out of death for Israel, but a source of death to Israel's enemies. The LXX. and Vulgate apparently take it in the former connection.

Verse 20. - He that is our God is the God of salvation; rather, God is to us a God of saving deeds (Kay), or of deliverances (Revised Version); i.e. net of salvation only in the abstract (ver. 19), but of deeds by which we are saved. And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death. It is through God only that, when death threatens, men escape it.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Our God
הָ֤אֵ֣ל ׀ (hā·’êl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

[is] a God
אֵ֤ל (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

of deliverance;
לְֽמוֹשָׁ֫ע֥וֹת (lə·mō·wō·šā·‘ō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 4190: Deliverance

the Lord
אֲדֹנָ֑י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

GOD
וְלֵיהוִ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3069: YHWH

[is our] rescuer
תּוֹצָאֽוֹת׃ (tō·w·ṣā·’ō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8444: An outgoing, extremity, perhaps source, escape

from death.
לַ֝מָּ֗וֶת (lam·mā·weṯ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin


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