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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Habakkuk 3:18

Yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Joy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Confidence, False;   Faith-Unbelief;   Joy;   Joy-Sorrow;   Rejoicing;   The Topic Concordance - Rejoice;   Salvation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Conduct, Christian;   Joy;   Olive-Tree, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Evil;   Joy;   Salvation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Habakkuk;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Selah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hymn;   Salvation;   Salvation Save Saviour;   Saviour (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Poetry;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Good, Chief;   Habakkuk;   Joy;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Poetry;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 30;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
yet I will celebrate in the Lord;I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
Hebrew Names Version
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
King James Version (1611)
Yet I will reioyce in the Lord: I will ioy in the God of my saluation.
King James Version
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord , I will joy in the God of my salvation.
English Standard Version
yet I will rejoice in the Lord ; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
New American Standard Bible
Yet I will triumph in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
New Century Version
But I will still be glad in the Lord ; I will rejoice in God my Savior.
Amplified Bible
Yet I will [choose to] rejoice in the LORD; I will [choose to] shout in exultation in the [victorious] God of my salvation!
Geneva Bible (1587)
But I will reioyce in the Lorde: I will ioy in the God of my saluation.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yet I will exult in Yahweh;I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
Berean Standard Bible
yet I will exult in the LORD; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!
Contemporary English Version
but I will still celebrate because the Lord God saves me.
Complete Jewish Bible
still, I will rejoice in Adonai , I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Darby Translation
Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Easy-to-Read Version
But I will still be glad in the Lord and rejoice in God my Savior.
George Lamsa Translation
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, and I will joy in the God my Saviour.
Good News Translation
I will still be joyful and glad, because the Lord God is my savior.
Lexham English Bible
Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh; I will exult in the God of my salvation.
Literal Translation
yet I will exult in Jehovah; I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
American Standard Version
Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Bible in Basic English
Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will exult in the God of my salvation.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But I will reioyce in the Lord, I will ioy in the God of my saluation.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
yet I will exult in the Lord, I will joy in God my Saviour.
English Revised Version
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
World English Bible
Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Y schal haue ioye in the Lord, and Y schal make ioie with outforth in God my Jhesu.
Update Bible Version
Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Webster's Bible Translation
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
New English Translation
I will rejoice because of the Lord ; I will be happy because of the God who delivers me!
New King James Version
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
New Living Translation
yet I will rejoice in the Lord ! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
New Life Bible
yet I will have joy in the Lord. I will be glad in the God Who saves me.
New Revised Standard
yet I will rejoice in the Lord ; I will exult in the God of my salvation.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yet, I, in Yahweh, will rejoice, - I will exult in the God of my salvation.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But I will rejoice in the Lord: and I will joy in God my Jesus.
Revised Standard Version
yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Young's Literal Translation
Yet I, in Jehovah I exult, I do joy in the God of my salvation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But as for me, I wil be glad in the LORDE, and will reioyce in God my Sauioure.

Contextual Overview

16 I heard and my inward parts trembled, At the sound my lips quivered. Decay enters my bones, And in my place I tremble. Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, For the people to arise who will invade us. 17 Though the fig tree should not blossom And there be no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold And there be no cattle in the stalls, 18 Yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.19 The Lord GOD is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds' feet, And makes me walk on my high places. For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will rejoice: Deuteronomy 12:18, 1 Samuel 2:1, Job 13:15, Psalms 33:1, Psalms 46:1-5, Psalms 85:6, Psalms 97:12, Psalms 104:34, Psalms 118:15, Psalms 149:2, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 61:10, Zechariah 10:7, Luke 1:46, Luke 1:47, Romans 5:2, Romans 5:3, Philippians 4:4, James 1:2, James 1:9, James 1:10, 1 Peter 1:8, 1 Peter 4:12, 1 Peter 4:13

the God: Exodus 15:2, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 27:1, Psalms 118:14, Isaiah 12:2, Micah 7:7, Luke 2:30

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:11 - General Deuteronomy 27:7 - rejoice 1 Samuel 30:6 - David 1 Kings 17:6 - the ravens Job 27:10 - delight Psalms 9:2 - I will be Psalms 9:14 - I will Psalms 13:5 - my heart Psalms 20:5 - rejoice Psalms 27:5 - set me Psalms 35:9 - General Psalms 43:4 - my exceeding joy Psalms 51:14 - thou God Psalms 71:22 - psaltery Psalms 73:25 - none upon Psalms 77:6 - my song Proverbs 3:26 - Lord Isaiah 15:6 - the grass Isaiah 16:10 - General Isaiah 17:10 - the God Isaiah 24:15 - glorify Isaiah 29:19 - rejoice Isaiah 58:14 - delight Jeremiah 5:17 - And they Joel 1:12 - The vine Joel 1:19 - to thee Joel 2:23 - rejoice Haggai 2:19 - as John 16:22 - and your Romans 5:11 - but we Romans 12:12 - Rejoicing Philippians 3:1 - rejoice 1 John 1:4 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."
Joshua 23:13
know with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Job 1:21
He said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD."
Job 5:5
"His harvest the hungry devour And take it to a place of thorns, And the schemer is eager for their wealth.
Job 31:40
Let briars grow instead of wheat, And stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended.
Psalms 90:3
You turn man back into dust And say, "Return, O children of men."
Psalms 104:2
Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak, Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain.
Proverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards himself will be far from them.
Proverbs 24:31
And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles; Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,.... In the Word of the Lord, as the Targum; the essential Word of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ; in his person, the greatness and glory of it; in his offices, as Prophet, Priest, and King, the only Mediator and Saviour; in his relations, as head and husband, father, brother, friend; in his fulness, grace, and righteousness; in his spiritual presence, and comfortable communion with him, which may be expected in a remarkable manner after the above day of trouble is over; and in his personal appearance, which will shortly be, and when his tabernacle will be with men on earth:

I will joy in the God of my salvation; in Christ, who is God, and so able to save his people; to make everything he did and suffered in human nature effectual and available to them; to supply all their wants, and to keep what they commit unto him, and to preserve them safe to his kingdom and glory: and who also joy in the salvation of their God, or which he is the author of, both temporal and spiritual, especially the latter; which is so great and glorious in itself, so suitable to their case, so complete and perfect, and makes so much for the glory of all the divine perfections, and is all of free grace, and lasts for ever: this salvation is peculiar to the people of God; it is theirs, and theirs only; it is what they choose and prefer to all other ways of salvation; it is brought and applied to them by the Spirit, and which they appropriate to themselves under his witnessings; and then it is they can and do rejoice: particularly salvation and deliverance from antichristianism, in all the branches of it, may be chiefly pointed at as the matter and ground of joy; and the enjoyment of Gospel privileges in the full extent of them; the word and ordinances in their power and purity; and the presence of Christ in them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. - The words are very impressive, as they stand in the Hebrew. “For,” he says, “the fig tree shall not blossom, and there is no fruit in the vines, the labor of the olive hath failed;” (the prophet does not look on, only to these things, but in his mind stands in the midst of them, they are done, and he amid them, feeling their effects) “and the field hath yielded no food; the flock hath been cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stall; and I.” He relates it as the result of all which had gone before; such and such was the state of fruit-trees, vintage, harvest, flocks and herds; such was the aspect of all nature, living or inanimate; all was barren, disappointing; all had failed and was gone; and then at last he comes to himself, and I; what is he doing, when all nature and every seeming hope is dead? thus and thus it is with them; and I will rejoice.

He almost uses the expression as to the exultation of the enemy, adopting the same word only in a softer form. “Their exulting joy was” concentrated in this, “as to devour the poor secretly;” he too had “exulting joy.” There is a joy against joy - a joy of theirs in the possession of all which their rapacity covets, in the possession of all things: a joy of his amid the privation of all things. He contrasts the two joys, as David had of old; Psalms 17:13, Psalms 17:15 : “the men of the world, whose portion is in this life, whose belly Thou fillest with Thy hid treasure; they are sated of children and leave their substance to their babes: I,” he adds, “I shall behold Thy Presenee in righteousness, I shall be sated, in the awakening, with Thine image.” So Habakkuk, “I will not rejoice only, but shout for joy;” and not so only, but “I will bound for joy;” and this not for a time only; both words express a drawing, yearning of the soul, and this yet more and more, “I will shout for joy and would shout on; I will bound for joy and would bound on.”

But whence the source of this measureless unutterable joy? In the Lord, the Unchangeable God, “who is and was and is to come,” I am (it is the incommunicable Name); in the God of my salvation: it is almost the Name of Jesus; for jesus is salvation, and the Name means “the Lord is Salvation;” whence the words are here rendered even by a Jew “in God the Author of my redemption,” and yet more sweetly by a father. Augustine, de Civ. D. xviii. 32: “To me what some manuscripts have; ‘I will rejoice in God my Jesus,’ seems better than what they have, who have not set the Name itself (but saving) which to us it is more loving and sweeter to name.”) “in God my Jesus.” In Him his joy begins, to Him and in Him it flows back and on; before he ventures, amid all the desolation, to speak of joy, he names the Name of God, and, as it were, stays himself in God, is enveloped and wrapped round in God; sad I (the words stand in this order) “and I in the Lord would shout for joy.”

He comes, as it were, and places himself quite close to God, so that nothing, not even his joy should be between himself and God; “and I in the Lord.” All creation, as it had failed, ceases to be; all out of God: he speaks of nothing but himself and God, or rather himself in God; and as He, God, comes before his joy, as its source, so in Him does he lose himself, with joy which cannot be contained, nor expressed, nor rest, but utters itself in the glad motions of untiring love. “I would bound for joy in my Saving God.” Truly all our joy is, to be in Him in whom is all Good, who is all Goodness and all Love.


 
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