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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
- 1 Sam 1:17Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
- Ps 60:4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
- Isa 25:9And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
- Hab 3:18Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
- 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.
- Isa 12:1–3And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
- Luke 1:47And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
- Ps 118:15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
- Ps 9:14That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
- Ps 35:9And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.
- Ps 13:5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
- Mic 4:5For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
- Ps 21:1The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
- Ps 19:4Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
- Isa 11:10And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
- Num 10:35–36And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
- 1 Sam 17:45Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
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