This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
- BSB This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
- NKJV This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
- NASB This is the day which the Lord has made; Let’s rejoice and be glad in it.
- NLT This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
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Quick answer
This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. It matters because God's day of salvation calls for wholehearted joy.
Overview
The verse celebrates the day of deliverance God has appointed as cause for gladness. In its fullest sense it points to the day of Christ's triumph, his resurrection. Many Christians have long applied it to the joy of the Lord's saving work, the day God has made for rejoicing in his salvation.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 84:10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
- Isa 58:13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
- Neh 8:10Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
- 2 Chr 20:26–28And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
- 1 Kgs 8:66On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
- Rev 1:10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
- Acts 20:7And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
- John 20:19–20Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
- Matt 28:1–8In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
- Zech 3:9For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
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