Psalms 68:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

He that is our God - i:e., the God of Israel.

Is the God of salvation - literally, of salvations. The plural expresses that, however numerous be the evils threatening our destruction, God has at command countless means of deliverance.

And unto God the Lord (belong) the issues from death - literally, "the issues" appertaining to lª- death;

i.e., the power to give His people's enemy up to death, and so to save His people from the death which the enemy threatened (Psalms 48:14; Revelation 1:18).

Psalms 68:20

20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.