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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.
Psalms 110:3 · New 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!
  • Heb 13:21make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  • Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • 1 Th 4:7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
  • Eph 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
  • Rev 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
  • Ps 96:9Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth.
  • 2 Cor 8:12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
  • 2 Cor 8:1–3Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
  • Acts 2:33Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
  • Acts 4:30–35while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
  • 2 Cor 13:4For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
  • 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
  • Acts 21:20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
  • Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
  • Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
  • 1 Chr 16:29Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.
  • Acts 1:8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
  • Neh 11:2The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
  • Rom 11:2–6God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
  • Acts 19:20So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
  • Ps 22:27–28All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
  • Gal 1:15–16But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
  • Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • Ezek 43:12This is the law of the house: on the top of the mountain the whole limit around it 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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  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

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

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • 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.

Original language

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