The Lord has vindicated us. Come, let us announce in Jerusalem everything the Lord our God has done.
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.
- 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!
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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 those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
- Ps 37:6he will make your righteousness go out as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
- Isa 40:2“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
- Isa 51:11Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- Ps 9:14that I may show all of your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
- Ps 126:1–3A Song of Ascents. When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.
- Mic 7:9–10I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
- Rev 14:1–3I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
- Ps 116:18–19I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,
- Rev 19:1–6After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God:
- Jer 31:6–9For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”
- Isa 52:9–10Break out into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
- Ps 102:19–21For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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