Salvation belongs to the LORD; may Your blessing be on Your people. Selah
Parallel translations
- WEB Salvation belongs to Yahweh. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.
- KJV Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
- NKJV Salvation belongs to the Lord. Your blessing is upon Your people. Selah
- NASB Salvation belongs to the Lord; May Your blessing be upon Your people! Selah
- NLT Victory comes from you, O Lord. May you bless your people. Interlude
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Quick answer
David affirms that salvation belongs to the Lord alone and asks blessing on God's people. Deliverance is God's gift, not human achievement.
Overview
The psalm closes by lifting David's personal rescue into a confession of truth: 'Salvation belongs to Yahweh.' He widens his prayer beyond himself to seek blessing on all God's people. This great refrain runs through Scripture to its climax in Christ, of whom the redeemed cry, 'Salvation belongs to our God' (Revelation 7:10).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Isa 43:11I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
- Jonah 2:9But I, with the voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to You. I will fulfill what I have vowed. Salvation is from the LORD!”
- Hos 13:4Yet I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt; you know no God but Me, for there is no Savior besides Me.
- Ps 37:39–40The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their stronghold in time of trouble.
- Rev 7:10And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
- Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
- Prov 21:31A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.
- Acts 4:12Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
- Ps 72:17May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.
- Acts 3:26When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
- Jer 3:23Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
- Ps 29:11The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.
- Rev 19:1After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!
- Isa 45:21–22Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
- 1 Pet 3:9Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
- Heb 6:14saying, “I will surely bless you and multiply your descendants.”
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