May we shout for joy at your victory and raise a banner in the name of our God. May the LORD grant all your petitions.
Parallel translations
- WEB We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.
- KJV We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
- NKJV We will rejoice in your salvation, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.
- NASB We will sing for joy over your victory, And in the name of our God we will set up our banners. May the Lord fulfill all your desires.
- NLT May we shout for joy when we hear of your victory and raise a victory banner in the name of our God. May the Lord answer all your prayers.
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Quick answer
The people anticipate rejoicing in God's victory and raising banners in his name. They pray confidently that God will grant all the king's requests.
Overview
Looking ahead to triumph, the congregation pledges to celebrate the salvation God will bring and to lift banners 'in the name of our God,' marking the victory as his. Their hope rests in God's name, not human strength. Such confident expectation of God-given victory is fully realized in the triumph of Christ the King.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Exod 17:15And Moses built an altar and named it The LORD Is My Banner.
- 1 Sam 1:17“Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”
- Ps 60:4You have raised a banner for those who fear You, that they may flee the bow. Selah
- Isa 25:9And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
- Hab 3:18yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
- 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.
- Isa 12:1–3In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
- Luke 1:47and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!
- Ps 118:15Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!
- Ps 9:14that I may declare all Your praises—that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
- Ps 35:9Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD and exult in His salvation.
- Ps 13:5But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
- Mic 4:5Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
- Ps 21:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!
- Ps 19:4their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
- Isa 11:10On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
- Num 10:35–36Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
- 1 Sam 17:45But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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