Let’s go into His dwelling place; Let’s worship at His footstool.
Parallel translations
- WEB “We will go into his dwelling place. We will worship at his footstool.
- KJV We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
- BSB Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool.
- NKJV Let us go into His tabernacle; Let us worship at His footstool.
- NLT Let us go to the sanctuary of the Lord; let us worship at the footstool of his throne.
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Quick answer
The people resolve to enter God's dwelling and worship at His footstool. It expresses eager, reverent worship in the presence of God.
Overview
The worshipers call one another to go to the Lord's dwelling and bow at His footstool, a term for the ark and the place of His presence. Worship is the fitting response to God establishing His dwelling. Believers now draw near to worship through Christ, the new and living way into God's presence.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 99:5Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
- Ps 5:7But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.
- Lam 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Ps 122:1A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”
- Ps 95:6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
- Ps 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.
- Isa 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For out of Zion the law shall go out, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.
- Ps 66:13–14I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,
- Ps 99:9Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
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