Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
- BSB Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.
- NKJV Let the saints be joyful in glory; Let them sing aloud on their beds.
- NASB ¶The godly ones shall be jubilant in glory; They shall sing for joy on their beds.
- NLT Let the faithful rejoice that he honors them. Let them sing for joy as they lie on their beds.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
- Ps 42:8Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
- 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
- Ps 118:15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
- Ps 145:10All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.
- Rom 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Ps 92:2to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,
- Ps 23:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
- Ps 132:16Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
- Ps 63:5–6My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
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