What joy for those you choose to bring near, those who live in your holy courts. What festivities await us inside your holy Temple.
Parallel translations
- WEB Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
- KJV Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
- BSB Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.
- NKJV Blessed is the man You choose, And cause to approach You, That he may dwell in Your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Of Your holy temple.
- NASB Blessed is the one You choose and allow to approach You; He will dwell in Your courtyards. We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Your holy temple.
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Quick answer
Blessed is the one God chooses and draws near to dwell in His courts and enjoy His house. It celebrates the blessing of nearness to God by His grace.
Overview
David rejoices that those God chooses and brings near are satisfied with the goodness of His house and temple. Access to God is rooted in His sovereign choosing, not human merit. Through Christ, believers are now brought near and made the very temple where God dwells by His Spirit.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Eph 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
- Ps 23:6Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
- Ps 84:4Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
- Ps 106:4–5Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
- Ps 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
- Ps 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
- Ps 4:3But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
- Rev 3:12He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
- Jer 31:25For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul I have replenished.”
- Ps 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
- Ps 15:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
- Rev 21:3–4I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
- Ps 24:7Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
- Ps 78:70–71He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
- Ps 17:15As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
- Jer 31:12–14They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
- Rev 7:16–17They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat;
- Ps 135:4For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
- 2 Th 2:13But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
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