Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
- KJV Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
- NKJV Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth.
- NASB Your people will volunteer freely on the day of Your power; In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, Your youth are to You as the dew.
- NLT When you go to war, your people will serve you willingly. You are arrayed in holy garments, and your strength will be renewed each day like the morning dew.
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Quick answer
On the day of the King's power His people will gladly offer themselves in holy beauty, fresh as morning dew. His subjects serve willingly, not by compulsion.
Overview
This verse pictures a willing, holy army gathering to the Messiah, as numerous and fresh as dew at dawn. It anticipates the freely devoted people Christ wins for Himself by grace (Titus 2:14). The Hebrew of this verse is notably difficult and translations vary, but its thrust, a glad and consecrated people belonging to the King, is clear.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 25
- Judg 5:2“When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.
- Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- 1 Th 4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- Eph 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- Rev 7:9After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
- Ps 96:9Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.
- 2 Cor 8:12For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
- 2 Cor 8:1–3Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.
- Acts 2:33Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
- Acts 4:30–35as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
- 2 Cor 13:4For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. And though we are weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him to serve you.
- 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you.
- Acts 21:20When they heard this, they glorified God. Then they said to Paul, “You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law.
- Acts 2:41Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
- Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
- 1 Chr 16:29Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness;
- Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
- Neh 11:2And the people blessed all the men who volunteered to live in Jerusalem.
- Rom 11:2–6God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
- Acts 19:20So the word of the Lord powerfully continued to spread and prevail.
- Ps 22:27–28All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
- Gal 1:15–16But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
- Acts 4:4But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
- Ezek 43:12This is the law of the temple: All its surrounding territory on top of the mountain will be most holy. Yes, this is the law of the temple.
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