The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah.
- BSB The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
- NKJV The Lord will record, When He registers the peoples: “This one was born there.” Selah
- NASB The Lord will count when He registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah
- NLT When the Lord registers the nations, he will say, “They have all become citizens of Jerusalem.” Interlude
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The LORD registers the peoples, recording 'this one was born there.' God Himself enrolls the citizens of Zion.
Overview
Like a king keeping a census, God writes the names of the nations as native-born citizens of Zion. This divine registry assures that those He claims truly belong. It anticipates the Lamb's book of life, in which the names of all redeemed in Christ are written.
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- Isa 4:3And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
- Luke 10:20Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
- Rev 20:15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
- Ezek 13:9And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
- Phil 4:3And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
- Ps 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
- Jer 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
- Rev 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
- Ps 22:30A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
- Ezek 9:4And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
- Gal 4:26–31But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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