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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.
Psalms 110:3 · King James Version
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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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 5:2Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
  • Heb 13:21Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
  • 1 Th 4:7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
  • Eph 1:4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
  • Rev 7:9After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
  • Ps 96:9O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
  • 2 Cor 8:12For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
  • 2 Cor 8:1–3Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
  • Acts 2:33Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
  • Acts 4:30–35By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 13:4For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
  • 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
  • Acts 21:20And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
  • Acts 2:41Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
  • Phil 2:13For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
  • 1 Chr 16:29Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
  • Acts 1:8But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
  • Neh 11:2And the people blessed all the men, that willingly offered themselves to dwell at Jerusalem.
  • Rom 11:2–6God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
  • Acts 19:20So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
  • Ps 22:27–28All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
  • Gal 1:15–16But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
  • Acts 4:4Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
  • Ezek 43:12This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 110:3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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