You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.
- KJV Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have established.
- NKJV You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O Lord, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
- NASB “You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, Lord, which You have made as Your dwelling, The sanctuary, Lord, which Your hands have established.
- NLT You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain— the place, O Lord, reserved for your own dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, that your hands have established.
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Quick answer
God will bring His people in and plant them on His holy mountain, the sanctuary His hands established.
Overview
The song looks ahead to God settling His people in the land and ultimately at His sanctuary. The goal of the exodus is worship in God's presence, the place He prepares for Himself to dwell. This points forward to God dwelling with His people fully, fulfilled in Christ and consummated in the new creation.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 80:8You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
- Ps 44:2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
- Ps 78:54–55He brought them to His holy land, to the mountain His right hand had acquired.
- Jer 32:41Yes, I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.
- Ps 78:68–69But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
- Jer 2:21I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
- Ps 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
- Jer 31:23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’
- Isa 5:1–4I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
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