Isaiah 9:3 “You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice…”

Isaiah 9:3

You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

World English Bible

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

American Standard Version

Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased their joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased their ioye: they haue reioyced before thee according to the ioye in haruest, and as men reioyce when they deuide a spoyle.

Darby Translation

Thou hast multiplied the nation, hast increased its joy: they joy before thee like to the joy in harvest; as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou hast multiplied the nation, Thou hast made great its joy, They have joyed before Thee as the joy in harvest, As [men] rejoice in their apportioning spoil.

Bible in Basic English

You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.

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Cross references

“hast multiplied”

Isaiah 26:15 Zechariah 2:11 Zechariah 8:23 Isaiah 49:20–22 Nehemiah 9:23 Psalm 107:38

Isaiah 26:15 · BSB

You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.

Zechariah 2:11 · BSB

“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.

Zechariah 8:23 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”

Isaiah 49:20–22 · BSB

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

Nehemiah 9:23 · BSB

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

Psalm 107:38 · BSB

He blesses them, and they multiply greatly; He does not let their herds diminish.

“they joy”

Isaiah 35:10 Isaiah 65:18 Isaiah 66:10 Isaiah 61:7 Jeremiah 31:7 Jeremiah 31:12–14

Isaiah 35:10 · BSB

So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

Isaiah 65:18 · BSB

But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.

Isaiah 66:10 · BSB

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

Isaiah 61:7 · BSB

Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.

Jeremiah 31:7 · BSB

For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’

Jeremiah 31:12–14 · BSB

They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD— the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garde…

“according”

Isaiah 16:9 Isaiah 16:10

Isaiah 16:9 · BSB

So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.

Isaiah 16:10 · BSB

Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard; no one sings or shouts in the vineyards. No one tramples the grapes in the winepresses; I have put an end to the cheering.

“and as men”

Psalm 119:162 1 Samuel 30:16 2 Chronicles 20:25–28 Luke 11:22 Judges 5:3

Psalm 119:162 · BSB

I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.

1 Samuel 30:16 · BSB

So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

2 Chronicles 20:25–28 · BSB

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables —more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because the…

Luke 11:22 · BSB

But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.

Judges 5:3 · BSB

Listen, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.

4For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.

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