Song of Deliverance
noun phrase
Praise arising from God's rescue of His people

📖 Biblical Definition

The song of praise the redeemed sing after God has rescued them from danger or distress. Psalm 32:7: Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. The biblical pattern of crisis-to-rescue-to-song runs through Scripture: Moses' Song at the Red Sea (Ex 15); Deborah's Song after Jabin's defeat (Judg 5); David's songs of deliverance (2 Sam 22, repeated as Ps 18); Mary's Magnificat after Gabriel's annunciation (Luke 1:46-55); the song of Moses and of the Lamb in the eschaton (Rev 15:3). Deliverance produces song, and song carries deliverance forward into memory and instruction. The Christian who has been delivered is to sing — not because singing is religious decoration, but because the song is the proper biblical response to rescue and the means by which the rescued teaches the next generation what God has done.

📖 Key Scripture

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Usage

• "You are my hiding place; you surround me with songs of deliverance (Psalm 32:7)."

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