Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, Yahweh.

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    Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, Yahweh.

  • KJV King James Version

    Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced; because of Thy judgments, O LORD.

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to Psalms 97:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 48:11 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.
  • Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Revelation 18:20 “Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
  • Isaiah 52:7-10 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion. Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Isaiah 62:11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”
  • Matthew 21:4-9 All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.” The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them, and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them. A very great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut branches from the trees, and spread them on the road. The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
  • Psalms 52:6 The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
  • Psalms 58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
  • Isaiah 51:3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
  • Zephaniah 3:14-17 Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem. Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more. In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.” Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
  • Revelation 19:1-7 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God; for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.” A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.” The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!” A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!” I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 8 Zion heard, and was glad In the former…

8 Zion heard, and was glad In the former part of the psalm he had spoken of that joy which should be common to all the world. Now he makes special mention of God’s chosen nation; and this partly, because they were to enjoy the first-fruits of this joy, and partly, because he would remove all occasion for rivalry or envy. Accordingly, having said that the Gentile nations should be brought to equal privileges with the posterity of Abraham, he adds, that the Jews would not suffer any diminution of honor by this co-partnership of privilege, but might rather reasonably rejoice in being chosen of God to be the fountain out of which the world was to be watered and refreshed. Those of whom the Psalmist speaks were the true children of Abraham and them only. They had a double reason for rejoicing, when God extended his government and glory from the rising to the setting sun; for, while he exhibited to them in Christ the complete fulfillment of that redemption which was promised, they, at the same time, saw the glory of God diffused from the narrow limits of Judea to all parts of the world. When the nations were blessed in the seed of Abraham, agreeably to the prediction which had gone before, this was no inconsiderable confirmation of their faith, as also, when they saw a religion which had been hated and despised universally embraced. But why, it may be asked, does he speak of those things being heard, rather than seen? Two reasons may be given for this. First, he would have God’s believing people anticipate the blessing by hope, ere the consummation of it arrived; and, again, the language intimates, that the glory of the Gospel would be spread to such distant quarters, that the Jews would rather hear of it by report, than witness it with their own eyes.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The Jews shall have occasion to rejoice, that the…
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Zion; thy people dwelling in Zion, or Jerusalem, and…
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain The kingdom of the Messiah, like the pillar of…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Zion heard, and was glad,.... Or, the congregation of…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Zion - Thy people dwelling in Zion or Jerusalem,…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. Zion heard, and was glad] All the…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 97:8-9. Zion heard — The people dwelling in…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Zion heard, and was glad - The good news…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. Zion heard, and was glad—The form of the…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. From Psa_48:11, but with a significant change. Then…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) Zion heard.—See Psa_48:11, Note.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Zion heard, and was glad. (comp. Psa_48:11) To Zion,…
Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 8. Zion heard, and was glad. While the…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of…
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 97:8-12 Jerusalem rejoices at the news of the Lord’s…

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