Our God is a God who saves! The Sovereign Lord rescues us from death.
Parallel translations
- WEB God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
- KJV He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues 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.
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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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Cross-references · 16
- Deut 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
- Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
- Isa 12:2Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- John 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
- 1 Sam 2:6“Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
- Ps 118:17–18I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
- Ps 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
- John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
- John 5:28–29Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
- Hos 1:7But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”
- Isa 45:17–22Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
- Rev 20:1I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
- Heb 2:14–15Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
- Prov 4:23Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
- John 4:22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
- John 5:23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
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