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Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
Psalms 132:9 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your 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 judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
  • Rev 19:8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
  • Ps 93:1The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
  • Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
  • 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
  • Ps 132:16I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
  • Ps 104:1Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
  • Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
  • Ps 68:3But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
  • Rom 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
  • Ps 35:26–27Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
  • Ezra 3:11–12And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
  • Ps 149:5Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
  • Isa 65:14Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
  • Ps 47:1O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
  • Zeph 3:14Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
  • Ps 70:4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
  • Judg 5:31So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And 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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