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Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”
Psalms 132:9 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
  • BSB May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
  • NKJV Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your saints shout for joy.
  • NASB May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And may Your godly ones sing for joy.
  • NLT May your priests be clothed in godliness; may your loyal servants sing for joy.

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Quick answer

They pray that the priests be clothed with righteousness and the saints shout for joy. It links God's presence to a holy, rejoicing people.

Overview

The prayer asks that the priests be adorned with righteousness and the godly sing for joy in God's presence. Right worship requires both holiness and gladness. In Christ, the great High Priest, His people are clothed in His righteousness and given lasting joy.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
  • Rev 19:8It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
  • Ps 93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.
  • Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
  • 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
  • Ps 132:16Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
  • Ps 104:1Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty.
  • Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Ps 68:3But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
  • Rom 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • Ps 35:26–27Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
  • Ezra 3:11–12They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.
  • Ps 149:5Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
  • Isa 65:14Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.
  • Ps 47:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
  • Zeph 3:14Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
  • Ps 70:4Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”
  • Judg 5:31“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

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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 132:9 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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