Psalms 68:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בָּ֤ר֣וּךְ אֲדֹנָי֮ י֤וֹם ׀ י֥וֹם יַֽעֲמָס־לָ֗נוּ הָ֘אֵ֤ל יְֽשׁוּעָתֵ֬נוּ סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

bārûk ʾădōnāy yôm yôm yaʿămās-lānû the-ʾēl yəšûʿātēnû selâ

Grammar Details

• *bārûk*: Qal passive participle masculine singular - 'blessed'
• *ʾădōnāy*: divine title - 'Lord'
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun (repeated) - 'day by day'
• *yaʿămās*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - 'he bears'
• *lānû*: preposition לְ (for) with 1st common plural suffix - 'for us'
• the-*ʾēl*: definite article + singular divine name - 'the God'
• *yəšûʿātēnû*: feminine singular noun with 1st common plural possessive suffix - 'our salvation'
• *selâ*: musical or liturgical term - 'Selah'

Word Meanings

• *bārûk*: blessed/praised/adored
• *yaʿămās*: bears/carries/loads
• *yəšûʿâ*: salvation/deliverance/victory
• *selâ*: pause/musical interlude/lift up

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:39 : 39 See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand.
• Rev 1:18 : 18 And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.
• Rev 20:1 : 1 And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand.
• 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
• Ps 56:13 : 13 Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.
• Ps 118:17-18 : 17 Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord. 18 The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.
• Prov 4:23 : 23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
• Isa 12:2 : 2 See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.
• Isa 45:17-22 : 17 But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever. 18 For this is the word of the Lord who made the heavens; he is God; the maker and designer of the earth; who made it not to be a waste, but as a living-place for man: I am the Lord, and there is no other. 19 I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness. 20 Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation. 21 Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other. 22 Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have salvation, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other.
• Hos 1:7 : 7 But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.
• John 4:22 : 22 You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.
• John 5:21 : 21 In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.
• John 5:23 : 23 So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him.
• John 5:28-29 : 28 Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead, 29 And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.
• John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, I am myself that day and that life; he who has faith in me will have life even if he is dead; 26 And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?
• Heb 2:14-15 : 14 And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One; 15 And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.