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In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
Psalms 89:16 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
  • BSB They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.
  • NKJV In Your name they rejoice all day long, And in Your righteousness they are exalted.
  • NASB In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.
  • NLT They rejoice all day long in your wonderful reputation. They exult in your righteousness.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Phil 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”
  • Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
  • Ps 89:12The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
  • 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Luke 1:47My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,
  • Ps 29:7Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
  • Ps 40:10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
  • Rom 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
  • Ps 29:5Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
  • Rom 3:21–26But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
  • Isa 46:13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
  • Ps 44:8In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.
  • Ps 105:3Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
  • Ps 33:21For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
  • Ps 71:15–16My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
  • Jer 23:6In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. This is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
  • Isa 45:24–25They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 89:16 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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