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Psalms 105:43
He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the worshiping community, narrating the Exodus event immediately after noting God’s remembrance of His covenant with Abraham. The moment marks the conclusion of the Egyptian deliverance narrative.
The words — יוֹצִיא (yo’tzi) translates literally as “he brought out,” and שָׂשׂוֹן (sa’son) means “rejoicing.” These terms anchor the verse in the physical departure and the communal response.
The thread — The motif of joyful departure appears in Isaiah 55:12 and Isaiah 35:10, where the redeemed return with singing. Acts 13:17 also traces this deliverance lineage back to God’s choice of Israel’s fathers.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that God’s covenant faithfulness produces tangible deliverance, requiring the reader to acknowledge divine action before personal application. It calls for a response grounded in historical fact rather than abstract feeling.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
Cross-references
- Isaiah 35:10 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.
- Acts 13:17 The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.
- Isaiah 55:12 You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
- Jeremiah 31:11 For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.
- Acts 7:36 He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
- Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
- Deuteronomy 4:37 Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,
- Psalms 106:8 Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
- Isaiah 51:10 Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
- Isaiah 63:11 Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,