He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
Parallel translations
- WEB God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
- BSB Our God is a God of deliverance; the Lord GOD is our rescuer from death.
- NKJV Our God is the God of salvation; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.
- NASB God is to us a God of salvation; And to God the Lord belong ways of escape from death.
- NLT Our God is a God who saves! The Sovereign Lord rescues us from death.
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Quick answer
Our God is a God of deliverance, and escape from death belongs to Him. It affirms God as the only true deliverer, even from death.
Overview
David declares that God is for His people a God of salvation, and that escape from death belongs to the Lord. Ultimate rescue, even from death itself, rests in His hands. This is fulfilled in Christ, who conquered death and grants His people victory over the grave.
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- Deut 32:39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
- Rev 1:18I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
- John 5:21For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
- 1 Sam 2:6The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
- Ps 118:17–18I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
- Ps 56:13For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
- John 11:25–26Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
- John 5:28–29Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
- Hos 1:7But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
- Isa 45:17–22But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
- Rev 20:1And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
- Heb 2:14–15Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
- Prov 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
- John 4:22Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
- John 5:23That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
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