Psalms 68:20

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The Lorde is our Lorde for to saue vs: and all maner of wayes for death pertayneth to God the Lorde.

📖 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 nowe howe that I, I am God, and there is none but I: I kyll, and wyll make alyue: I wounde, and wyll heale, neither is there any that can delyuer out of my hande.
• Rev 1:18 : 18 And am alyue, and was dead: And beholde, I am alyue for euermore, Amen, and haue the keyes of hell and of death.
• Rev 20:1 : 1 And I sawe an angel come downe from heauen hauyng the key of the bottomelesse pytte, and a great chaine in his hand
• 1 Sam 2:6 : 6 The Lord kylleth and maketh alyue, bryngeth downe to the graue & fetcheth vp agayne.
• Ps 56:13 : 13 For thou hast deliuered my soule from death, and my feete from falling: that I may walke before the Lorde in the light of the liuing.
• Ps 118:17-18 : 17 I shall not as yet dye, but I shal liue: and I wyll declare the workes of the Lorde. 18 The Lorde hath greatly chastened me: but he hath not geuen me ouer vnto death.
• Prov 4:23 : 23 Kepe thyne heart with all diligence, for out of it issueth lyfe.
• Isa 12:2 : 2 Beholde, God is my saluation, in who I wyll trust and not be afrayde: for the Lorde God is my strength and my song, he also is become my saluation.
• Isa 45:17-22 : 17 But Israel shalbe saued in the Lord with an euerlasting saluation: ye shall not come to shame nor confusion world without ende. 18 For thus saith the Lorde, Euen he that created heauen, the God that made the earth & fassioned it, and set it foorth, he dyd not make it for naught, but to be inhabited, euen I the Lorde, without whom there is none other. 19 I haue not spoken secretly, neither in darke places of the earth: I sayde not in vayne to the seede of Iacob, seeke me: I am the Lorde, whiche when I speake, do declare the thing that is righteous and true. 20 Gather you and come together, drawe nigh hither you that escaped of the people: they haue no vnderstanding that set vp the stockes of their idols, and pray vnto a god that can not helpe them. 21 Drawe nye, come hyther, and let them aske counsaile one at another, and shew foorth what is he that told this before? or who spake of it euer since the beginning? haue not I the Lorde done it? without whom there is none other God, the true God and sauiour, and there is els none but I. 22 And therfore turne you vnto me, all ye endes of the earth, that ye may be saued: for I am God, and there is els none.
• Hos 1:7 : 7 Yet I wyll haue mercy vpon the house of Iuda, and wil saue them, euen thorowe the Lorde their God: and wil not saue them by bowe, sworde, battell, horses, or horsemen.
• John 4:22 : 22 Ye worshippe ye wote not what. We knowe what we worshippe: For saluation commeth of the Iewes.
• John 5:21 : 21 For lykewyse as the father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them: euen so, the sonne quickeneth whom he wyll.
• John 5:23 : 23 Because that all men shoulde honour the sonne, euen as they honour the father. He that honoureth not the sonne, the same honoureth not ye father which hath sent hym.
• John 5:28-29 : 28 Marueyle not at this: For the houre shall come, in the whiche all that are in the graues shall heare his voyce. 29 And shall come foorth, they that haue done good, vnto the resurrection of lyfe, and they that haue done euyll, vnto the resurrection of dampnation.
• John 11:25-26 : 25 Iesus sayth vnto her, I am the resurrection, and the lyfe: He that beleueth on me, yea, though he were dead, yet shall he lyue. 26 And whosoeuer lyueth, and beleueth on me, shall neuer dye. Beleuest thou this?
• Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Forasmuch then as the chyldren are partakers of flesshe and blood, he also hym selfe lykewyse toke part with the, that through death he myght expell hym that had lordship ouer death, that is the deuyll: 15 And that he myght delyuer them, which through feare of death, were all their lyfe tyme in daunger of bondage.