May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”
- KJV Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy 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; justice was my robe and my turban.
- Rev 19:8She was given clothing of fine linen, bright and pure.” For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints.
- Ps 93:1The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- Isa 61:10I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Ps 132:16I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints will sing out in joy.
- Ps 104:1Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
- Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Ps 68:3But the righteous will be glad and rejoice before God; they will celebrate with joy.
- Rom 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- Ps 35:26–27May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.
- Ezra 3:11–12And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.
- Ps 149:5Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.
- Isa 65:14My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
- Ps 47:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.
- Zeph 3:14Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
- Ps 70:4May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”
- Judg 5:31So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.
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