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Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.
Psalms 41:13 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
  • BSB Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
  • NKJV Blessed be the Lord God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
  • NASB ¶Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
  • NLT Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who lives from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and amen!

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Quick answer

This doxology blesses the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. It closes Book One of the Psalms with praise.

Overview

The verse is not part of Psalm 41's lament but a benediction marking the end of the first book of the Psalter (Psalms 1-41). It crowns the collection with eternal praise to God. The double 'Amen' affirms the truth and worthiness of God forever.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Ps 72:18–19Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
  • Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
  • Rev 5:9–14They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
  • Rev 4:8The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”
  • Ps 89:52Blessed be Yahweh forever more. Amen, and Amen.
  • Ps 106:48Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!
  • Ps 150:6Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!
  • Rev 7:12saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
  • 1 Chr 29:10Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
  • Matt 6:13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
  • 1 Chr 16:36Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh.
  • Deut 27:15–26‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
  • Jer 28:6even the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May Yahweh do so. May Yahweh perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh’s house, and all them of the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
  • 1 Cor 14:16Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?
  • 1 Kgs 1:36Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, “Amen. May Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, say so.
  • Rev 11:17saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power, and reigned.
  • Rev 22:20He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.
  • Num 5:22and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 41:13 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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