Psalm 132:9 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness; and let your saints shout for joy. Joy is both full of insight and medicinal. Our best poets delight to depict its power in each of these ministries. Wordsworth said it was "with an eye made quiet by the deep power of joy that he saw into the life of things." Then he felt sensations sweet passing into his pure mind, with tranquil restoration. Then he came to know that blessed mood in which the burden of the mystery of this unintelligible world is lightened; and he became a living soul. If this be the ministry of the joy of nature, surely the "joy of the Lord" would lighten many dark problems in life, lift many a burden, change the home and the business of many a weary and tried child of God, and fill them with brightness and song. Parallel Verses KJV: Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.WEB: Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!" |
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