“This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.
Parallel translations
- KJV This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
- BSB “This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.
- NKJV “Thisis My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
- NASB “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
- NLT “This is my resting place forever,” he said. “I will live here, for this is the home I desired.
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- Ps 132:8Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place; you, and the ark of your strength.
- Ps 135:21Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, Who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise Yah!
- 1 Kgs 8:13I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
- Ps 87:2Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- Isa 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
- Ps 76:2His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
- Ps 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
- Zeph 3:17Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
- Isa 8:18Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
- Eph 2:22in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
- Isa 11:10It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- 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?
- Matt 23:21He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.
- 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.
- Joel 3:21I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
- Rev 21:23The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
- 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,
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