With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
Parallel translations
- WEB With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace.
- BSB They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.
- NKJV With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought; They shall enter the King’s palace.
- NASB They will be brought with joy and rejoicing; They will enter into the King’s palace.
- NLT What a joyful and enthusiastic procession as they enter the king’s palace!
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Quick answer
With gladness and rejoicing the bride and her company enter the king's palace. It matters because it pictures the joy of being brought into the King's presence.
Overview
The procession reaches its goal in joyful entry into the royal palace. Gladness marks this union with the king. So the church's destiny is to be brought with rejoicing into the everlasting presence of Christ, where joy is full and unending.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Rev 7:15–17Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
- Isa 35:10And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- 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.
- Jude 1:24Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
- Isa 55:12–13For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
- Rev 3:12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
- Isa 60:19–20The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
- Isa 56:5Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
- Rev 3:21To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
- Isa 51:11Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
- John 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
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