This is the day which the Lord has made; Let’s 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!
- KJV This is the day which the LORD hath 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.
- 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 your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
- Isa 58:13“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
- Neh 8:10Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
- 2 Chr 20:26–28On the fourth day, they assembled themselves in Beracah Valley, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place was called “Beracah Valley” to this day.
- 1 Kgs 8:66On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.
- Rev 1:10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet
- Acts 20:7On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.
- John 20:19–20When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
- Matt 28:1–8Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
- Zech 3:9For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
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