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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Quick answer
Let the saints exult in this honor and sing for joy even on their beds. God's people rejoice in His goodness at all times, even in rest.
Overview
The faithful are called to glory in the honor God grants them, singing for joy even in their resting places. Praise overflows from public worship into private moments. Such constant joy belongs to those secure in God's salvation, a joy made complete in the peace believers have in Christ.
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 145:10All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.
- Ps 118:15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
- Ps 92:2to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,
- Ps 63:5–6My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
- Ps 132:16Her priests I will also clothe with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.
- Ps 23:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
- 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.
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