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Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer.
Psalms 78:35 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
  • KJV And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
  • BSB And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
  • NKJV Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.
  • NASB And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

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Quick answer

They remembered that God was their rock and redeemer. In crisis they recalled His saving character.

Overview

Under pressure they 'remembered that God was their rock' and 'redeemer.' These titles affirm God as both their stable refuge and the One who bought them out of bondage in Egypt. Such redemption foreshadows the greater redemption Christ accomplishes, delivering His people from slavery to sin.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Deut 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
  • Isa 41:14Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
  • Exod 15:13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
  • Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Deut 7:8but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
  • Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
  • Ps 74:2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.
  • Ps 78:11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
  • Ps 78:7that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,
  • Ps 78:42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
  • Deut 15:15You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
  • Deut 9:26I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  • Ps 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
  • Ps 106:21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
  • Deut 32:30–31How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
  • Exod 6:6Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
  • Isa 44:6This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
  • Isa 63:8–9For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

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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 78:35 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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