4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
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4 For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people: He will beautify the meek with salvation.
4 For Jehovah is pleased with His people, He beautifieth the humble with salvation.
4 For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people; he beautifieth the meek with salvation.
4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
4 For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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PSALM 149
Ps 149:1-9. This Psalm sustains a close connection with the foregoing. The chosen people are exhorted to praise God, in view of past favors, and also future victories over enemies, of which they are impliedly assured.
1. (Compare Ps 96:1).
2. God had signalized His relation as a sovereign, in restoring them to their land.
3. in the dance—(Ps 30:11). The dance is connected with other terms, expressive of the great joy of the occasion. The word may be rendered "lute," to which the other instruments are joined.
sing praises—or, sing and play.
4. taketh pleasure—literally, "accepts," alluding to acceptance of propitiatory offerings (compare Ps 147:11).
beautify, &c.—adorn the humble with faith, hope, joy, and peace.
5. in glory—the honorable condition to which they are raised.
upon their beds—once a place of mourning (Ps 6:6).
6. high praises—or, "deeds." They shall go forth as religious warriors, as once religious laborers (Ne 4:17).
7. The destruction of the incorrigibly wicked attends the propagation of God's truth, so that the military successes of the Jews, after the captivity, typified the triumphs of the Gospel.
9. the judgment written—either in God's decrees, or perhaps as in De 32:41-43.
this honour—that is, to be thus employed, will be an honorable service, to be assigned
his saints—or, godly ones (Ps 16:3).