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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 17:15Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.
- 1 Sam 1:17Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”
- Ps 60:4You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
- Isa 25:9It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
- Hab 3:18yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
- Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Isa 12:1–3In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
- Luke 1:47My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
- Ps 118:15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
- Ps 9:14that I may show all of your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion, I will rejoice in your salvation.
- Ps 35:9My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.
- Ps 13:5But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.
- Mic 4:5Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
- Ps 21:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The king rejoices in your strength, Yahweh! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
- Ps 19:4Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
- Isa 11:10It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
- Num 10:35–36When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”
- 1 Sam 17:45Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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