Parallel Verses

King James 2000

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

New American Standard Bible

For the Lord takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.

King James Version

For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

Holman Bible

For Yahweh takes pleasure in His people;
He adorns the humble with salvation.

International Standard Version

For the LORD is pleased with his people; he beautifies the afflicted with salvation.

A Conservative Version

For LORD takes pleasure in his people. He will beautify the meek with salvation.

American Standard Version

For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people: He will beautify the meek with salvation.

Amplified


For the Lord takes pleasure in His people;
He will beautify the humble with salvation.

Bible in Basic English

For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.

Darby Translation

For Jehovah taketh pleasure in his people; he beautifieth the meek with salvation.

Julia Smith Translation

For Jehovah delighted in his people: he will adorn the humble in salvation.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies [the] afflicted with salvation.

Modern King James verseion

For Jehovah takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the meek with salvation.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the LORD hath pleasure in his people, and helpeth the meek hearted.

NET Bible

For the Lord takes delight in his people; he exalts the oppressed by delivering them.

New Heart English Bible

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

The Emphasized Bible

For Yahweh is taking pleasure in his people, He will beautify humbled ones with victory.

Webster

For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

World English Bible

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Jehovah is pleased with His people, He beautifieth the humble with salvation.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the Lord

Usage: 0

in his people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

he will beautify
פּאר 
Pa'ar 
Usage: 14

the meek
עניו ענו 
`anav 
Usage: 21

Context Readings

Praise To God For His Future Judgment

3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. 4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. 5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.


Cross References

Psalm 35:27

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

Psalm 132:16

I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

Psalm 147:11

The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 22:8

He trusted in the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Psalm 90:17

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish it.

Psalm 117:2

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise you the LORD.

Proverbs 11:20

They that are of a perverse heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

Isaiah 61:1-3

The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 62:4-5

You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah: for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.

Jeremiah 32:41

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.

Zephaniah 3:17

The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.

Hebrews 12:10

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.

1 Peter 3:4

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.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

Revelation 7:14

And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they who came out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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