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48:9-11 The Lord's Presence Brings Joy to His People. The people assembled for worship reflect on how God has displayed his steadfast love, not simply in personal deliverance and forgiveness but in preserving them as his people, whom he called so that his praise might reach to the ends of the earth, i.e., so that the Gentiles would come to know him. Such reflections on God's judgments, which display his righteousness (i.e., covenant faithfulness), should lead the daughters (i.e., towns and villages) of Judah to rejoice.