In Your name they rejoice all the day, And by Your righteousness they are exalted.
Parallel translations
- WEB In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
- 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.
- NLT They rejoice all day long in your wonderful reputation. They exult in your righteousness.
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Quick answer
God's people delight continually in His name and are lifted up by His righteousness.
Overview
The blessed life of verse 15 overflows into all-day rejoicing centered on God's revealed character ("your name"). Their exaltation rests not on their own merit but on God's righteousness. For the believer, this righteousness is supremely given in Christ, who becomes our exaltation and joy (1 Cor. 1:30-31).
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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 29:7Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.
- 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 89:12The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- 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.”
- 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 33:21For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
- 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;
- Ps 105:3Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
- 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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