Revelation 19:1

19:1 After these things I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a vast throng in heaven, saying,

“Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,

Psalms 3:8

3:8 The Lord delivers; ¹ 

you show favor to your people. ²  (Selah)

Psalms 37:39

37:39 But the Lord delivers the godly; ³ 

he protects them in times of trouble. ⁴ 

Psalms 68:19-20

68:19 The Lord deserves praise! ⁵ 

Day after day ⁶  he carries our burden,

the God who delivers us. (Selah)

68:20 Our God is a God who delivers;

the Lord, the sovereign Lord, can rescue from death. ⁷ 

Psalms 115:1

Psalm 115 ⁸ 

115:1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us!

But to your name bring honor, ⁹ 

for the sake of your loyal love and faithfulness. ¹⁰ 

Isaiah 43:11

43:11 I, I am the Lord,

and there is no deliverer besides me.

Isaiah 45:15

45:15 Yes, you are a God who keeps hidden,

O God of Israel, deliverer!

Isaiah 45:21

45:21 Tell me! Present the evidence! ¹¹ 

Let them consult with one another!

Who predicted this in the past?

Who announced it beforehand?

Was it not I, the Lord?

I have no peer, there is no God but me,

a God who vindicates and delivers; ¹² 

there is none but me.

Jeremiah 3:23

3:23 We know our noisy worship of false gods

on the hills and mountains did not help us. ¹³ 

We know that the Lord our God

is the only one who can deliver Israel. ¹⁴ 

Hosea 13:4

Well-Fed Israel Will Be Fed to Wild Animals

13:4 But I am the Lord your God,

who brought you out of Egypt.

Therefore, you must not acknowledge any God but me;

except me there is no Savior.

Jonah 2:9

2:9 But as for me, I promise to offer a sacrifice to you with a public declaration ¹⁵  of praise; ¹⁶ 

I will surely do ¹⁷  what I have promised. ¹⁸ 

Salvation ¹⁹  belongs to the Lord!” ²⁰ 

Zechariah 9:9

9:9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!

Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!

Look! Your king is coming to you:

he is legitimate ²¹  and victorious, ²² 

humble and riding on a donkey ²³  –

on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.

Luke 3:6

3:6 and all humanity ²⁴  will see the salvation of God.’” ²⁵ 

John 4:22

4:22 You people ²⁶  worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²⁷ 

Ephesians 2:8

2:8 For by grace you are saved ²⁸  through faith, ²⁹  and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;

[3:8]  ¹ tn Heb “to the Lord [is] deliverance.”

[3:8]  ² tn Heb “upon your people [is] your blessing.” In this context God’s “blessing” includes deliverance/protection, vindication, and sustained life (see Pss 21:3, 6; 24:5).

[37:39]  ³ tn Heb “and the deliverance of the godly [ones] [is] from the Lord.”

[37:39]  ⁴ tn Heb “[he is] their place of refuge in a time of trouble.”

[68:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “blessed [be] the Lord.”

[68:19]  ⁶ tn It is possible to take this phrase with what precedes (“The Lord deserves praise day after day”) rather than with what follows.

[68:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and to the Lord, the Lord, to death, goings out.”

[115:1]  ⁸ sn Psalm 115. The psalmist affirms that Israel’s God is superior to pagan idols and urges Israel to place their confidence in him.

[115:1]  ⁹ tn Or “give glory.”

[115:1]  ¹⁰ sn The psalmist asks the Lord to demonstrate his loyal love and faithfulness, not simply so Israel may benefit, but primarily so that the Lord will receive honor among the nations, who will recognize, contrary to their present view (see v. 2), that Israel’s God is committed to his people.

[45:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Declare! Bring near!”; NASB “Declare and set forth your case.” See 41:21.

[45:21]  ¹² tn Or “a righteous God and deliverer”; NASB, NIV, NRSV “a righteous God and a Savior.”

[3:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “Truly in vain from the hills the noise/commotion [and from] the mountains.” The syntax of the Hebrew sentence is very elliptical here.

[3:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Truly in the Lord our God is deliverance for Israel.”

[2:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “voice” or “sound.”

[2:9]  ¹⁶ tc The MT reads בְּקוֹל תּוֹדָה (bÿqol todah, “with a voice of thanksgiving”). Some mss of Tg. Jonah read “with the sound of hymns of thanksgiving” here in 2:9 – the longer reading probably reflects an editorial gloss, explaining תּוֹדָה (“thanksgiving”) as “hymns of thanksgiving.”

[2:9]  ¹⁷ tn The verbs translated “I will sacrifice” and “I will pay” are Hebrew cohortatives, expressing Jonah’s resolve and firm intention.

[2:9]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “what I have vowed I will pay.” Jonah promises to offer a sacrifice and publicly announce why he is thankful. For similar pledges, see Pss 22:25-26; 50:14-15; 56:12; 69:29-33; 71:14-16, 22-24; 86:12-13; 116:12-19.

[2:9]  ¹⁹ tn Or “deliverance” (NAB, NRSV).

[2:9]  ²⁰ tn Or “comes from the Lord.” For similar uses of the preposition lamed (לְ, lÿ) to convey a sort of ownership in which the owner does or may by right do something, see Lev 25:48; Deut 1:17; 1 Sam 17:47; Jer 32:7-8.

[9:9]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew term צַדִּיק (tsadiq) ordinarily translated “righteous,” frequently occurs, as here, with the idea of conforming to a standard or meeting certain criteria. The Messianic king riding into Jerusalem is fully qualified to take the Davidic throne (cf. 1 Sam 23:3; Isa 9:5-6; 11:4; 16:5; Jer 22:1-5; 23:5-6).

[9:9]  ²² tn The Hebrew term נוֹשָׁע (nosha’) a Niphal participle of יָשַׁע (yasha’, “to save”) could mean “one delivered” or, if viewed as active, “one bringing salvation” (similar KJV, NIV, NKJV). It is preferable to take the normal passive use of the Niphal and understand that the king, having been delivered, is as a result “victorious” (so also NRSV, TEV, NLT).

[9:9]  ²³ sn The NT understands this verse to be a prophecy of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and properly so (cf. Matt 21:5; John 12:15), but reference to the universal rule of the king in v. 10 reveals that this is a “split prophecy,” that is, it has a two-stage fulfillment. Verse 9 was fulfilled in Jesus’ earthly ministry but v. 10 awaits a millennial consummation (cf. Rev 19:11-16).

[3:6]  ²⁴ tn Grk “all flesh.”

[3:6]  ²⁵ sn A quotation from Isa 40:3-5. Though all the synoptic gospels use this citation from Isaiah, only Luke cites the material of vv. 5-6. His goal may well be to get to the declaration of v. 6, where all humanity (i.e., all nations) see God’s salvation (see also Luke 24:47).

[4:22]  ²⁶ tn The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is supplied to indicate that the Greek verb translated “worship” is second person plural and thus refers to more than the woman alone.

[4:22]  ²⁷ tn Or “from the Judeans.” See the note on “Jew” in v. 9.

[2:8]  ²⁸ tn See note on the same expression in v. 5.

[2:8]  ²⁹ tc The feminine article is found before πίστεως (pistews, “faith”) in the Byzantine text as well as in A Ψ 1881 pc. Perhaps for some scribes the article was intended to imply creedal fidelity as a necessary condition of salvation (“you are saved through the faith”), although elsewhere in the corpus Paulinum the phrase διὰ τῆς πίστεως (dia th" pistew") is used for the act of believing rather than the content of faith (cf. Rom 3:30, 31; Gal 3:14; Eph 3:17; Col 2:12). On the other side, strong representatives of the Alexandrian and Western texts (א B D* F G P 0278 6 33 1739 al bo) lack the article. Hence, both text-critically and exegetically, the meaning of the text here is most likely “saved through faith” as opposed to “saved through the faith.” Regarding the textual problem, the lack of the article is the preferred reading.