The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Parallel translations
- WEB ‘Yahweh has produced our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.’
- BSB “The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
- 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 50:28The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
- Ps 37:6And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
- Isa 40:2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.
- Isa 51:11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
- Ps 9:14That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
- Ps 126:1–3When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
- Mic 7:9–10I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
- Rev 14:1–3And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
- Ps 116:18–19I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,
- Rev 19:1–6And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
- Jer 31:6–9For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God.
- Isa 52:9–10Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
- Ps 102:19–21For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
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