God’s Word Translation
Psalms 132:9
9Clothe your priests with righteousness. Let your godly ones sing with joy.
Psalms 132:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
- New International Version (NIV)May your priests be clothed with your righteousness; may your faithful people sing for joy.’ ”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your saints shout for joy.
Context of Psalms 132:9
7Let’s go to his dwelling place. Let’s worship at his footstool. 8O Lord, arise, and come to your resting place with the ark of your power. Clothe your priests with righteousness. Let your godly ones sing with joy. 10For the sake of your servant David, do not reject your anointed one. 11The Lord swore an oath to David. This is a truth he will not take back: “I will set one of your own descendants on your throne.
Read all of Psalms 132Psalms 132:9 word by word
כֹּהֲנֶ֥יךָ יִלְבְּשׁוּ־צֶ֑דֶק וַחֲסִידֶ֥יךָ יְרַנֵּֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 132:9
- Psalms 132:16I will clothe its priests with salvation. Then its godly ones will sing joyfully.
- Psalms 93:1The Lord rules as king! He is clothed with majesty. The Lord has clothed himself; he has armed himself with power. The world was set in place; it cannot be moved.
- Psalms 104:1Praise the Lord, my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great. You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
- Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it was my clothing. I practiced justice, and it was my robe and my turban.
- Isaiah 61:10I will find joy in the Lord. I will delight in my God. He has dressed me in the clothes of salvation. He has wrapped me in the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom with a priest’s turban, like a bride with her jewels.
- Romans 13:14Instead, live like the Lord Jesus Christ did, and forget about satisfying the desires of your corrupt nature.
- 1 Peter 5:5Young people, in a similar way, place yourselves under the authority of spiritual leaders. Furthermore, all of you must serve each other with humility, because God opposes the arrogant but favors the humble.
- Revelation 19:8She has been given the privilege of wearing dazzling, pure linen.” This fine linen represents the things that God’s holy people do that have his approval.
- Psalms 35:26Let those who gloat over my downfall be thoroughly put to shame and confused. Let those who promote themselves at my expense be clothed with shame and disgrace.
- Psalms 68:3But let righteous people rejoice. Let them celebrate in God’s presence. Let them overflow with joy.
- Psalms 70:4Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad because of you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “God is great!”
- Judges 5:31May all your enemies die like that, O Lord. But may those who love the Lord be like the sun when it rises in all its brightness. So the land had peace for 40 years.
- Psalms 47:1Clap your hands, all you people. Shout to God with a loud, joyful song.
- Isaiah 65:14My servants will sing because of the gladness in their hearts. But you will cry because of your sadness and wail because of your depression.
- Ezra 3:11As they praised and gave thanks to the Lord, they sang antiphonally: “He is good; his mercy toward Israel endures forever.” Then all the people shouted, “Praise the Lord,” because the foundation for the house of the Lord had been laid.
- Zephaniah 3:14Sing happily, people of Zion! Shout loudly, Israel! Celebrate and rejoice with all your heart, people of Jerusalem.
Commentaries on Psalms 132:9
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness - This is also substantially the same language that was used by Solomon at the dedication of the temple. See again 2 Chronicles 6:41. The idea is, that in the service of such a God, the priests, the ministers of religion, should be holy. The honor of religion demanded it. It was the first qualification of those who “served the altar;” a qualification without which all other endowments would be valueless. On…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9The priests were to show righteousness by the way they live (Psalm 132:16; Malachi 2:6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-98-9. The solemn entry of the ark, symbolical of God's presence and power, with the attending priests, into the sanctuary, is proclaimed in the words used by Solomon (2Ch 6:41).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 132
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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