So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.
Parallel translations
- WEB So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
- KJV To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
- BSB So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
- NKJV So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.
- NASB So have I seen You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and glory.
- NLT I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory.
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Quick answer
David recalls beholding God's power and glory in the sanctuary. Past worship sustains his longing in the wilderness.
Overview
Far from the place of worship, David remembers seeing God's power and glory in the sanctuary. The memory of communion with God fuels his present thirst for him. For believers, the remembered experience of God's presence likewise strengthens faith during seasons of spiritual dryness.
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- Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
- Ps 105:4Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
- Ps 84:2–11My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Ps 96:6Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
- 1 Chr 16:11Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
- 2 Cor 4:4–6in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
- Exod 33:18–19He said, “Please show me your glory.”
- 1 Sam 4:21–22She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel”; because God’s ark was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
- Ps 145:11They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power;
- Ps 68:24They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
- Ps 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
- Ps 73:17–18Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
- Ps 77:13–14Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
- Ps 78:61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
- Isa 60:13“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
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