And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:
Parallel translations
- KJV And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
- BSB and freed us from our enemies. His loving devotion endures forever.
- NKJV And rescued us from our enemies, For His mercy endures forever;
- NASB And has rescued us from our enemies, For His faithfulness is everlasting;
- NLT He saved us from our enemies. His faithful love endures forever.
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God delivered His people from their adversaries, and His love endures forever.
Overview
Having remembered them in distress, God rescued His people from those who opposed them. His steadfast love is shown not only in past wonders but in continual deliverance. This rescue points to the ultimate deliverance from sin and the enemy of our souls accomplished by Christ.
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Cross-references · 7
- Exod 15:13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Ps 107:2Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
- Luke 1:68–74“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
- Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
- Deut 15:15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
- Prov 23:10–11Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
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