Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
Parallel translations
- WEB Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
- KJV Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
- NKJV Make us glad according to the days in which You have afflicted us, The years in which we have seen evil.
- NASB Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us, And the years we have seen evil.
- NLT Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.
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Quick answer
Moses asks God to grant gladness proportional to the days of affliction His people have endured.
Overview
He prays that seasons of joy would match the years of suffering and evil. The petition trusts God to balance hardship with renewed blessing. Such hope is secured in Christ, whose light, momentary afflictions yield an eternal weight of glory (2 Cor. 4:17).
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- Ps 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
- Isa 40:1–2“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
- John 16:20Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.
- Jer 31:12–13They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.
- Isa 12:1In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
- Isa 65:18–19But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.
- Isa 61:3to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
- Rev 7:14–17“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
- Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- Deut 2:14–16The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
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