Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah
Parallel translations
- WEB I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.
- KJV I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
- NKJV I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; I will trust in the shelter of Your wings. Selah
- NASB Let me dwell in Your tent forever; Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah
- NLT Let me live forever in your sanctuary, safe beneath the shelter of your wings! Interlude
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Quick answer
David longs to dwell forever in God's tent and take refuge under his wings. It expresses desire for enduring nearness to God.
Overview
David yearns for permanent fellowship in God's dwelling and the safety of his sheltering wings. The tent recalls the tabernacle, the place of God's presence among his people. This longing finds its fulfillment in Christ, through whom believers gain eternal access to dwell in God's presence forever. The Selah invites lingering on this hope.
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Cross-references · 17
- Ps 23:6Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
- Ps 27:4One 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.
- Ps 17:8Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- Ps 91:4He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
- Ps 15:1A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?
- Ps 57:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
- Ruth 2:12May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”
- Ps 63:7For You are my help; I will sing for joy in the shadow of Your wings.
- Ps 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Matt 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- Ps 62:7My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.
- Rev 3:12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
- Ps 142:4–5Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- Ps 90:1A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.
- Heb 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
- Ps 92:13Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
- Ps 61:7May he sit enthroned in God’s presence forever; appoint Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness to guard him.
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