“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
Parallel translations
- WEB ‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
- KJV The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
- NKJV The Lord has revealed our righteousness. Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God.
- NASB The Lord has brought about our vindication; Come and let’s recount in Zion The work of the Lord our God!
- NLT The Lord has vindicated us. Come, let us announce in Jerusalem everything the Lord our God has done.
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Quick answer
The exiles declare that the Lord has vindicated their cause and call one another to proclaim His work in Zion. Babylon's fall is celebrated as God's vindication of His people.
Overview
Where Babylon's judgment is total, Israel's righteousness is 'produced' or brought to light by the Lord, who acts to set His people right. Their response is worship and testimony in Zion, the place of God's presence. This pattern of God vindicating His own anticipates the gospel, where believers' righteousness is established by God's saving act in Christ and answered with declarative praise.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Jer 50:28Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.
- Ps 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
- Isa 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
- Isa 51:11So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- Ps 9:14that I may declare all Your praises—that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
- Ps 126:1–3A song of ascents. When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.
- Mic 7:9–10Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
- Rev 14:1–3Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
- Ps 116:18–19I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people,
- Rev 19:1–6After this I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude in heaven, shouting: “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God!
- Jer 31:6–9For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”
- Isa 52:9–10Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.
- Ps 102:19–21For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
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