Psalm 149:4
Good News Translation
The LORD takes pleasure in his people; he honors the humble with victory.

New Revised Standard Version
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with victory.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is pleased with his people, and he gives victory to those who are humble.

New American Bible
For the LORD takes delight in his people, honors the poor with victory.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.

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Psalm 22:8 He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.

Psalm 35:27 Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my justice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in the peace of his servant.

Psalm 117:2 For his mercy is confirmed upon us: and the truth of the Lord remaineth for ever.

Psalm 147:11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

Proverbs 11:20 Hand in hand the evil man shall not be innocent: but the seed of the just shall be saved.

Isaiah 62:4,5 Thou shalt no more be called Forsaken: and thy land shall no more be called Desolate: but thou shalt be called My pleasure in her, and thy land inhabited. Because the Lord hath been well pleased with thee: and thy land shall be inhabited. . . .

Jeremiah 32:41 And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty, he will save: he will rejoice over thee with gladness, he will be silent in his love, he will be joyful over thee in praise.

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Psalm 90:17 And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

Psalm 132:16 I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall rejoice with exceeding great joy.

Isaiah 61:1-3,10 The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me: he hath sent me to preach to the meek, to heal the contrite of heart, and to preach a release to the captives, and deliverance to them that are shut up. . . .

Hebrews 12:10 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

1 Peter 3:4 But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

Revelation 7:14 And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Context
Sing to the LORD a New Song
3Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery. 4For the Lord is well pleased with his people: and he will exalt the meek unto salvation.5The saints shall rejoice in glory: they shall be joyful in their beds.…
Cross References
Job 36:11
If they shall hear and observe, they shall accomplish their days in good, and their years in glory.

Psalm 16:11
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.

Psalm 35:27
Let them rejoice and be glad, who are well pleased with my justice, and let them say always: The Lord be magnified, who delights in the peace of his servant.

Psalm 132:16
I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints shall rejoice with exceeding great joy.

Psalm 147:11
The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him: and in them that hope in his mercy.

Isaiah 61:3
To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Psalm 149:3
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