But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
Parallel translations
- KJV But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
- BSB But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.
- NKJV “Butthe Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
- NASB “But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before Him.”
- NLT But the Lord is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him.”
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- Zech 2:13Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
- Zeph 1:7Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
- Ps 46:10“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
- Ps 11:4Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
- Isa 6:1In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
- Jonah 2:7“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
- Mic 1:2Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
- Ps 76:8–9You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,
- Ps 132:13–14For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
- Eph 2:21–22in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
- Ps 115:3But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
- Isa 66:1Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
- Isa 66:6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
- Jonah 2:4I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
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