Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.
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.
- BSB Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as 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.
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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 but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Ps 126:5–6Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.
- Isa 40:1–2“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
- John 16:20Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
- Jer 31:12–13They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
- Isa 12:1In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.
- Isa 65:18–19But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.
- Isa 61:3to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
- Rev 7:14–17I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
- Matt 5:4Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
- Deut 2:14–16The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
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