Psalms 68:20

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“God Himself <FI>is<Fi> to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 68:20 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 15:2The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
  2. 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.
  3. 1 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
  4. 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.
  5. Psalms 118:17I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
  6. Proverbs 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
  7. 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.”
  8. Isaiah 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
  9. 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.”
  10. John 4:22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
  11. John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
  12. 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.
  13. John 5:28Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
  14. John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
  15. Hebrews 2:14Now 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,
  16. 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.
  17. Revelation 20:1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.

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