Revelation 19:7 BSB

Revelation 19:7

Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

KJV

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

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Commentary

5 voices

Cyprian

Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews (258)

That Christ is the Bridegroom, having the Church as His bride, from which spiritual children were to be born. In Joel: "Blow with the trumpet in Sion; sanctify a fast, and call a healing; assemble the people, sanctify the Church, gather the elders, collect the little ones that suck the breast; let the Bridegroom go forth of His chamber, and the bride out of her closet."

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

Bede

Commentary on Revelation (735)

And his wife has made herself ready. By constantly engaging in works of righteousness, she has shown herself worthy of the spiritual feast and eternal kingdom. This can also be understood according to the parable of the Gospel, which narrates the virgins rising at the …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The marriage of the Lamb is come - Is near at hand, to be solemnized speedily. What this implies, none of "the spirits of just men," even in paradise, yet know.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The marriage-feast, which, though not particularly described (as Matt. xxii. 4 ), yet is declared to be such as would make all those happy who were called to it, so called as to accept the invitation, a feast made up of the promises of the gospel, the true sayings of God,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Let us be glad and rejoice - Let all in heaven rejoice - for all have an interest in the triumph of truth; all should be glad that the government of God is set up over an apostate world. And give honour to him - Because the work is glorious; and became it is by his power alone that it has been accomplished. See the notes on Rev 5:12. For the marriage of the Lamb is come - Of the Lamb of God - the Redeemer of the world. See the notes on Rev 5:

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
χαίρωμεν	chairōmen	We may rejoice	G5463 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀγαλλιῶμεν	agalliōmen	we may exult	G21 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
δώσωμεν	dōsōmen	we may give	G1325 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
δόξαν	doxan	glory	G1391 →
αὐτῷ,	autō	to Him,	G846 →
ὅτι	hoti	because	G3754 →
ἦλθεν	ēlthen	has come	G2064 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
γάμος	gamos	marriage	G1062 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
ἀρνίου,	arniou	Lamb,	G721 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
γυνὴ	gunē	bride	G1135 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἡτοίμασεν	hētoimasen	has made ready	G2090 →
ἑαυτήν.	he'autēn	herself.	G1438 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 21:2
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
leads to
- Hebrews 11:10
  For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
- Revelation 3:12
  The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the…
- Revelation 21:10
  And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
- Hebrews 13:14
  For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
- Isaiah 61:10
  I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom…
Through
2 Corinthians 11:2
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
leads to
- Hosea 2:19–20
  So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
- Ephesians 5:26–27
  to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
- Isaiah 54:5
  For your husband is your Maker—the LORD of Hosts is His name—the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; He is called the God of all the earth.

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