Genesis 50

Which worship songs are based on Genesis 50?

  1. Thankful — Byron Cage (2009) Genesis 50:20

    The song closely adapts Joseph’s statement that others intended harm but God intended good. It applies that distinctive reversal to the singer’s own experience of deliverance.

  2. Gold (Spontaneous) - Live — Leeland (2019) Genesis 50:20

    The opening adapts Joseph’s declaration that intended evil was redirected by God toward a redemptive purpose. The song applies that pattern to spiritual opposition and divine glory.

  3. Meant for Good — Brandon Lake (2022) Genesis 50:20

    The song’s central contrast between an adversary’s harmful intention and God’s good purpose directly adapts Joseph’s declaration that God redirected intended evil toward a saving outcome.

  4. Miracle Worker - Live — Planetshakers (2025) Genesis 50:20

    The bridge closely paraphrases Joseph's declaration that intended harm can be redirected by God toward a redemptive purpose.

  5. See A Victory — Dante Bowe & Essential Worship (2021) Genesis 50:20

    The bridge closely paraphrases Joseph's explanation that his brothers intended harm, while God redirected their action toward a good and life-preserving purpose.

  6. Make a Way (feat. Chandler Moore & Brandon Lake) — Elevation Worship & Brandon Lake & Chandler Moore (2023) Genesis 50:20

    The spontaneous section closely paraphrases Joseph’s statement that human intentions for evil can be redirected by God toward good.

  7. Battles — Jordan Smith (2021) Genesis 50:20

    The bridge closely paraphrases Joseph’s declaration that human beings intended harm but God redirected that intention toward good.

  8. See a Victory — Israel & New Breed (2021) Genesis 50:20

    The bridge closely paraphrases Joseph’s explanation that his brothers intended evil against him, while God redirected their actions toward a saving good.

  9. My Refuge, My Strength — Byron Cage (2012) Genesis 50:20

    The choir's contrast between others' harmful intentions and God's reversal of their outcome closely paraphrases Joseph's explanation to his brothers that God redirected their intended evil toward good.

  10. See a Victory — Elevation Worship (2019) Genesis 50:20

    The bridge closely paraphrases Joseph’s declaration that human beings intended harm, while God redirected the same events toward a good and saving purpose.

  11. See A Victory / What A Beautiful Name - Medley — Jonathan Traylor & Worship Together (2021) Genesis 50:20

    The closing refrain closely paraphrases Joseph’s statement that human agents intended evil while God redirected their actions toward a saving good.

  12. See A Victory — Elevation Church Kids (2020) Genesis 50:20

    The bridge closely paraphrases Joseph’s explanation that human evil was intended against him but was redirected by God toward a saving good.

  13. For Your Glory — BRAG WORSHIP & Trip Lee (2026) Genesis 50:20

    The bridge closely paraphrases Joseph’s declaration that human actors intended evil while God redirected their actions toward a redemptive outcome.

  14. Taking It Back — JSP (2025) Genesis 50:20

    The song explicitly references the biblical principle that God can turn what was intended for evil into good, mirroring Joseph's story of reconciliation with his brothers.

  15. He Turned It — Ricky Dillard & New G (2011) Genesis 50:20

    The song closely adapts Joseph’s declaration that God intended for good what others intended for evil. It attributes the harmful intention to the devil rather than Joseph’s brothers and applies the reversal to the believer’s own suffering.

  16. Blessed & Highly Favored — The Clark Sisters (2007) Genesis 50:20

    The bridge closely adapts Joseph's contrast between an intention to cause harm and God's intention to bring good from it. It substitutes the devil for Joseph's brothers as the malicious agent, while preserving the verse's distinctive reversal.

Genesis 50 (King James Version)

1 And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

12 And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

18 And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.