Psalms 132:9

King James Version

Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
May your priests be clothed with righteousness,and may your faithful people shout for joy.

Hebrew Names Version
Let your Kohen be clothed with righteousness. Let your holy ones shout for joy!"

English Standard Version
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy.

New Century Version
May your priests do what is right. May your people sing for joy.

New English Translation
May your priests be clothed with integrity! May your loyal followers shout for joy!

Amplified Bible
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness (right living), And let Your godly ones shout for joy.

New American Standard Bible
May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And may Your godly ones sing for joy.

World English Bible
Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse, and let thy Saints reioyce.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness,And let Your holy ones sing for joy.

Berean Standard Bible
May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.

Contemporary English Version
Let victory be like robes for the priests; let your faithful people celebrate and shout.

Complete Jewish Bible
May your cohanim be clothed with righteousness; may those loyal to you shout for joy.

Darby Translation
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.

Easy-to-Read Version
May your priests be clothed in victory and your loyal followers be filled with joy.

George Lamsa Translation
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and thy saints with glory.

Good News Translation
May your priests do always what is right; may your people shout for joy!

Lexham English Bible
Let your priests clothe themselves with righteousness, and let your faithful sing for joy.

Literal Translation
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let Your saints shout for joy.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let thy prestes be clothed with rightuousnesse, and let thy sayntes reioyse.

American Standard Version
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; And let thy saints shout for joy.

Bible in Basic English
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints give cries of joy.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let Thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let Thy saints shout for joy.

King James Version (1611)
Let thy Priestes be clothed with righteousnesse: and let thy saints shout for ioy.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let thy priestes be clothed with righteousnes: and let thy saintes make a ioyfull noyse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thy priests shall clothe themselves with righteousness; and thy saints shall exult.

English Revised Version
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thi prestis be clothid with riytfulnesse; and thi seyntis make ful out ioye.

Update Bible Version
Let your priest be clothed with righteousness; And let your saints shout for joy.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.

New King James Version
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your saints shout for joy.

New Living Translation
May your priests be clothed in godliness; may your loyal servants sing for joy.

New Life Bible
Let Your religious leaders be dressed with what is right and good. And let those who belong to You sing for joy.

New Revised Standard
Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your faithful shout for joy.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thy priests, let them be clothed with righteousness, Thy men of lovingkindness, let them shout for joy!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(131-9) Let thy priests be clothed with justice: and let thy saints rejoice.

Revised Standard Version
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.

Young's Literal Translation
Thy priests do put on righteousness, And Thy pious ones cry aloud.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, And let Your godly ones sing for joy.

Contextual Overview

¹ Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions: ² How he sware unto the Lord , and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; ³ Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed; ⁴ I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, ⁵ Until I find out a place for the Lord , an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. ⁶ Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood. ⁷ We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool. ⁸ Arise, O Lord , into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength. ⁹ Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy. ¹⁰ For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy priests: Psalms 132:16, Psalms 93:1, Psalms 104:1, Job 29:14, Isaiah 61:10, Romans 13:14, 1 Peter 5:5, Revelation 19:8

let thy saints: Psalms 35:26, Psalms 35:27, Psalms 68:3, Psalms 70:4, Judges 5:31

shout: Psalms 47:1, Isaiah 65:14, Ezra 3:11, Ezra 3:12, Zephaniah 3:14, Zechariah 9:9

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:2 - holy garments Leviticus 8:13 - Moses Psalms 30:4 - Sing Psalms 68:1 - God arise Proverbs 31:25 - Strength Jeremiah 31:14 - satiate Luke 15:22 - the best Acts 6:7 - the priests Ephesians 3:18 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness,.... In 2 Chronicles 6:41; it is, "with salvation", as in Psalms 132:16. Either the ministers of the word; who may be said to be clothed with righteousness when they perform their work righteously, and faithfully dispense the word, keep back nothing that is profitable, and administer the ordinances according to the rules of Christ; and when their lives and conversations are agreeable to the Gospel they preach; see Job 29:14; or else all true believers; who are priests as well as kings unto God; and who are clothed with the robe of Christ's righteousness; and with the internal graces of the Spirit, the new man created in righteousness and true holiness; and with conversation garments, becoming the Gospel, and their profession of it;

and let thy saints shout for joy; the Levites; thy Holy Ones, as the Targum; so Kimchi, Arama, and others; the singers in the temple: but rather the Lord's sanctified ones, true believers under the Gospel dispensation, are meant; who shout for joy, and have reason so to do, at the incarnation of Christ, at his ascension to heaven, at the Gospel preached by his ministers, and at the robe of righteousness with which they are clothed. In 2 Chronicles 6:41 it is, "rejoice in goodness"; in the goodness of the Lord; in the good things bestowed on them, or promised to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let 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 the word clothed, see the notes at Psalms 35:26; compare Psalms 65:13; Psalms 93:1; Psalms 104:1; Isaiah 61:10; 1 Peter 5:5.

And let thy saints shout for joy - Thy holy ones; all who truly worship and honor thee. Let them be happy in such a God; in thy presence; in thy service. The fact that there is a God, and such a God, and that this God is ours - that we may serve him, glorify him, enjoy him - is suited to fill the mind with joy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 132:9. Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness — Let them be as remarkable for inward holiness as they are for the splendour of their holy vestments.