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“This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
Psalms 132:14 · New American Standard Bible
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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 19

  • Ps 132:8Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place; you, and the ark of your strength.
  • Isa 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”
  • Ps 87:2Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
  • Ps 76:2His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.
  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • 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,
  • Joel 3:21I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion.”
  • 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.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 132:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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