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30 (A)The plate of the sacred diadem was made of pure gold and inscribed, as on a seal engraving: “Sacred to the Lord.”

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30 They made the plate, the sacred emblem, out of pure gold and engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: holy to the Lord.(A)

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24 For on his full-length robe was the whole world,
    and ancestral glories were carved on the four rows of stones,
    and your grandeur[a] was on the crown upon his head.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:24 Glories…grandeur: the name of God and the names of the tribes were inscribed on the high priest’s apparel.
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Thanksgiving for God’s Deliverance

10 [a]I will rejoice heartily in the Lord,
    my being exults in my God;
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation,
    and wrapped me in a robe of justice,
Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem,
    as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 61:10–11 The new life of the restored Zion is expressed in nuptial (cf. also 62:5) and agricultural (cf. v. 3; 60:21) imagery.

10 I delight greatly in the Lord;
    my soul rejoices(A) in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
    and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,(B)
as a bridegroom adorns his head(C) like a priest,
    and as a bride(D) adorns herself with her jewels.

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You shall be a glorious crown in the hand of the Lord,
    a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

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You will be a crown(A) of splendor in the Lord’s hand,
    a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

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