“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.
Parallel translations
- WEB “This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.
- KJV This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
- 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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Quick answer
God declares Zion His resting place forever, where He desires to dwell. It assures God's permanent, willing presence among His people.
Overview
Yahweh Himself speaks, naming Zion as His eternal resting place where He chooses to live. His presence there is not reluctant but desired. This anticipates the final reality in which God dwells forever with His redeemed people through Christ.
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Cross-references · 19
- Ps 132:8Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
- Isa 12:6Cry out and sing, O citizen of Zion, for great among you is the Holy One of Israel.”
- Ps 87:2The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
- Ps 76:2His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.
- Ps 135:21Blessed be the LORD from Zion—He who dwells in Jerusalem. Hallelujah!
- 1 Kgs 8:13I have indeed built You an exalted house, a place for You to dwell forever.”
- Isa 8:18Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
- Zeph 3:17The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”
- Ps 68:18You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
- Isa 66:1This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
- Matt 23:21And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it.
- Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Eph 2:22And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.
- Isa 11:10On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
- Rev 21:23And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
- 1 Kgs 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- Heb 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
- Joel 3:21For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.
- Ps 68:16Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
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