For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
- BSB For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
- NKJV For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place:
- NASB ¶For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it as His dwelling place.
- NLT For the Lord has chosen Jerusalem; he has desired it for his home.
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Cross-references · 7
- Ps 78:68–69But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
- Heb 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
- Ps 87:2Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- Ps 68:16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
- Ps 76:1–2For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song. In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
- Isa 14:32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.
- Ps 48:1–3A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
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