Psalms 48 · Verse 14

Psalms 48:14

For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Psalms 48:14, King James Version

Psalms 48:14 in other translations

BSBFor this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
WEBFor this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
ASVFor this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.
YLTThat this God is our God--To the age and for ever, He--he doth lead us over death!
DARBYFor this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death.
BBEBecause this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide.
WebsterFor this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even to death.

What does Psalms 48:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 48:12-14

12-14. The call to survey Zion, or the Church, as a fortified city, is designed to suggest "how well our God secures His fold." This security is perpetual, and its pledge is His guidance through this life.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 For this God - Who did all these wonderful things: - Is our God - He is our portion, and he has taken us for his people. He will be our guide - Through all the snares and difficulties of life: - Even unto death - He will never leave us; and we, by his grace, will never abandon him. He is just such a God as we need; infinite in mercy, goodness, and truth. He is our Father, and we are the sons and daughters of God Almighty. Even unto and in death, he will be our portion.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 48:8-14

We have here the improvement which the people of God are to make of his glorious and gracious appearances for them. Let our faith in the word of God be hereby confirmed. Let our hope of the stability of the church be encouraged. Let our minds be filled with good thoughts of God. All the streams of mercy that flow down to us, must be traced to the fountain of His loving-kindness. Let us give to God the glory of the…

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Psalms 48:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֤יkiforH3588
זֶ֨ה\׀zehthisH2088
אֱלֹהִ֣ים'E.lo.Him[is] GodH430
אֱ֭לֹהֵינוּ'E.lo.hei.nuGod ourH430
עוֹלָ֣םo.LamforeverH5769
וָעֶ֑דva.'Edand everH5703
ה֖וּאhu'heH1931
יְנַהֲגֵ֣נוּye.na.ha.Ge.nuhe will guide usH5090
עַל\־'al-onH5921
מֽוּת\׃MutdyingH4191

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 48:14

  • Isaiah 58:11

    And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

  • Psalms 23:3-4

    He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

  • Psalms 73:24

    Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

  • Psalms 25:9

    The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

  • John 16:13

    Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

  • Psalms 73:26

    My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

  • Psalms 31:14

    But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

  • Psalms 16:2

    O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

  • Proverbs 8:20

    I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

  • Lamentations 3:21

    This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
this God.
16:2; 31:14; 73:24,26; La 3:21
guide.
23:3,4; 25:9; 73:24; Pr 8:20; Isa 58:11; Joh 16:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 48:13

    Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

  • Psalms 48:14

    For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

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Psalms 48:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque este Dios es Dios nuestro eternalmente y para siempre: él nos capitaneará hasta la muerte.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Faites attention à son rempart, considérez ses palais, afin que vous le racontiez à la génération à venir.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn dieser Gott ist unser Gott immer und ewiglich! Er wird uns leiten bis an den Tod.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Hæc via illorum scandalum ipsis; et postea in ore suo complacebunt.