Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

King James 2000

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

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 tabret and harp. 4 For the LORD hath pleasure in his people, and helpeth the meek hearted. 5 Let the saints be joyful with glory; let them rejoice in their beds.


Cross References

Psalm 35:27

Let them be glad and rejoice, that favour my righteous dealing; yea, let them say always, "Blessed be the LORD, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."

Psalm 132:16

I will deck her priests with health, and her saints shall rejoice and sing.

Psalm 147:11

But the LORD's delight is in them that fear him, and put their trust in his mercy.

Psalm 22:8

"He trusted in the LORD, that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, if he will have him."

Psalm 90:17

And the glorious majesty of the LORD our God be upon us. Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us; O prosper thou our handiwork.

Psalm 117:2

For his merciful kindness is ever more and more toward us, and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

Proverbs 11:20

The LORD abhorreth a fained heart; but he hath pleasure in them that are undefiled.

Isaiah 61:1-3

The spirit of the LORD God is with me, for the LORD hath anointed me, and sent me to preach good tidings unto the poor: that I might bind up the wounded hearts, that I might preach deliverance to the captive, and open the prison to them that are bound;

Isaiah 61:10

And therefore I am joyful in the LORD, and my soul rejoiceth in my God. For he shall put upon me the garment of salvation, and cover me with the mantle of righteousness. He shall deck me like a bridegroom, and as a bride that hath her apparel upon her.

Isaiah 62:4-5

From this time forth thou shalt never be called the forsaken, and thy land shall no more be called the wilderness. But thou shalt be called Hephzibah, that is, my beloved; and thy land Beulah, that is, a married woman: for the LORD loveth thee, and thy land shall be inhabited.

Jeremiah 32:41

Yea I will have a lust and pleasure to do them good, and faithfully to plant them in this land, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

Zephaniah 3:17

for the LORD thy God is with thee. It is he that hath power to save: he hath a special pleasure in thee, and a marvelous love toward thee: yea he rejoiceth over thee with gladness."

Hebrews 12:10

And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness.

1 Peter 3:4

but let the hid man of the heart be uncorrupt, with a meek and a quiet spirit, which spirit is, before God, a thing much set by.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, ye younger submit yourselves unto the elder. Submit yourselves every man, one to another. Knit yourselves together in lowliness of mind. For God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

Revelation 7:14

And I said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest." And he said unto me, "These are they which came out of great tribulation and made their garments large, and made them white in the blood of the lamb:

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