Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
- BSB Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
- NKJV Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
- NASB Israel shall be joyful in his Maker; The sons of Zion shall rejoice in their King.
- NLT O Israel, rejoice in your Maker. O people of Jerusalem, exult in your King.
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Let Israel rejoice in their Maker and Zion be joyful in their King. God's people delight in Him as both Creator and Sovereign.
Overview
The people are called to rejoice in God who made them and reigns as their King. Joy in worship flows from knowing both who formed us and who rules over us. This king-joy finds its fullness in Christ, the King in whom His people rejoice with inexpressible joy (1 Peter 1:8).
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Cross-references · 21
- Ps 95:6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
- Ps 100:1–3A Psalm of thanksgiving. Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!
- Isa 54:5For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.
- Isa 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
- Joel 2:23“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
- Deut 7:6–7For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.
- Luke 19:38saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”
- 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 135:3–4Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.
- Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
- Deut 12:7There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
- 1 Sam 12:22For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
- Ps 47:6Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
- John 19:19–22Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, “JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
- Isa 62:11–12Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’”
- Luke 19:27But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
- Rev 19:6I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
- John 19:15They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
- Matt 25:34Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
- Matt 21:5“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
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