He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with gladness.
Parallel translations
- WEB He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing.
- KJV And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
- BSB He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.
- NASB And He led out His people with joy, His chosen ones with a joyful shout.
- NLT So he brought his people out of Egypt with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing.
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Quick answer
God brought His chosen people out with joy and singing. It matters because redemption gave rise to glad worship.
Overview
The deliverance from Egypt issued in rejoicing, as seen in the song at the sea (Exodus 15). God's saving acts evoke joyful praise from His redeemed. So too the greater redemption in Christ moves His people to sing of His salvation.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 35:10The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
- Acts 13:17The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
- Jer 31:11–12For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.
- Acts 7:36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
- Isa 55:12For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
- Exod 15:1–21Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
- Isa 63:11–14Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
- Isa 51:10–11Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
- Deut 4:37–38Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
- Ps 106:8–12Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
- Ps 78:52–53But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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