O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
- KJV LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
- NKJV Lord, I have loved the habitation of Your house, And the place where Your glory dwells.
- NASB ¶Lord, I love the dwelling of Your house, And the place where Your glory remains.
- NLT I love your sanctuary, Lord, the place where your glorious presence dwells.
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Quick answer
David loves the house of the Lord, the place where God's glory dwells. His heart delights in nearness to God's presence.
Overview
David expresses deep love for the sanctuary where God's glory abides, longing to be where God is present. This devotion springs from treasuring fellowship with God above all else. Such longing finds its fullest answer in Christ, in whom the glory of God dwells, and in the hope of dwelling forever in God's presence.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Ps 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
- Ps 27:4–6One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
- John 2:14–17In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.
- Ps 122:9For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
- Ps 84:1–2For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
- Isa 38:22And Hezekiah had asked, “What will be the sign that I will go up to the house of the LORD?”
- Luke 2:46Finally, after three days they found Him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
- Ps 122:1–4A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
- Isa 38:20The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.
- 1 Chr 29:3Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
- 2 Chr 5:14so that the priests could not stand there to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.
- Exod 40:34–35Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
- Luke 2:49“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
- Exod 25:21–22Set the mercy seat atop the ark, and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.
- Luke 19:45–47Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there.
- Ps 42:4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
- Ps 63:2–3So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
- 2 Sam 15:25Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
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