A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.
Parallel translations
- WEB A Prayer by Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
- KJV Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
- NKJV Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
- NASB Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.
- NLT Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!
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Quick answer
Moses confesses that God Himself, not any place, has always been His people's true home and security.
Overview
This is the oldest psalm in the Psalter, ascribed to Moses, and it opens Book IV with eternal perspective. Across every generation, God has been Israel's "dwelling place," their refuge and abiding home. For believers, this enduring shelter is found in God through Christ, in whom we dwell secure forever (John 15:4).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Deut 33:27The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. He drives out the enemy before you, giving the command, ‘Destroy him!’
- Ps 71:3Be my rock of refuge, where I can always go. Give the command to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.
- 1 Jn 4:16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
- Ps 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Ezek 11:16Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
- Ps 91:9Because you have made the LORD your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—
- Ps 89:1A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
- John 6:56Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
- Exod 33:14–19And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
- 1 Kgs 13:1Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
- 1 Tim 6:11But you, O man of God, flee from these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
- Isa 8:14And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
- Num 13:1–14And the LORD said to Moses,
- Deut 33:1This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.
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Christ at the center
The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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