For that is what God is like. He is our God forever and ever, and he will guide us until we die.
Parallel translations
- WEB For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
- KJV For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
- BSB For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
- NKJV For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide Even to death.
- NASB For such is God, Our God forever and ever; He will lead us until death.
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Quick answer
The God celebrated throughout the psalm is 'our God forever,' who will guide His people even through death. He is a lasting refuge.
Overview
The psalm closes by anchoring everything in God Himself rather than in the city's stones: He belongs to His people 'forever and ever' and will lead them 'even to death.' This hints at hope that extends beyond the grave. For the Christian, this guidance is fulfilled in Christ the Good Shepherd, who leads His people through death into eternal life.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 58:11and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
- Ps 23:3–4He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
- Ps 73:24You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
- Ps 25:9He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.
- John 16:13However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
- Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
- Ps 31:14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
- Ps 16:2My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”
- Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
- Lam 3:21This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
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