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Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
Psalms 41:13 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.
  • KJV Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and 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 72:18–19Blessed be the LORD 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 in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
  • Rev 5:9–14And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
  • Rev 4:8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
  • Ps 89:52Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
  • Ps 106:48Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!
  • Ps 150:6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Hallelujah!
  • Rev 7:12saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
  • 1 Chr 29:10Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
  • Matt 6:13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
  • 1 Chr 16:36Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and “Praise the LORD!”
  • Deut 27:15–26‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
  • Jer 28:6“Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
  • 1 Cor 14:16Otherwise, if you speak a blessing in spirit, how can someone who is uninstructed say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
  • 1 Kgs 1:36“Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.
  • Rev 11:17saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.
  • Rev 22:20He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!
  • Num 5:22May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

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  • 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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