Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
⛓ Read Psalm 32 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Paul's imperative 'rejoice in the LORD' verbally echoes the Psalter's recurrent summons 'Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous' (Ps 32:11). The phrase 'in the Lord/in YHWH' as the ground of joy is a Septuagintal idiom; Paul gives it eschatological force in Christ. Recurrence across the Psalms strengthens the resonance.
Medium confidence'Rejoice in the LORD always' echoes the recurrent Psalter imperative 'Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous' (32:11; cf. 33:1; 97:12). Recurrence is strong across the Psalter and coherence with Paul's joy theme is high; volume is moderate because Paul universalizes 'always' beyond any single psalm.
Medium confidence