Your testimonies are fully confirmed; holiness adorns Your house, O LORD, for all the days to come.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.
- KJV Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
- NKJV Your testimonies are very sure; Holiness adorns Your house, O Lord, forever.
- NASB Your testimonies are fully confirmed; Holiness is pleasing to Your house, Lord, forevermore.
- NLT Your royal laws cannot be changed. Your reign, O Lord, is holy forever and ever.
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Quick answer
God's decrees are fully trustworthy, and holiness befits His house forever. The reigning God is also the holy, reliable lawgiver.
Overview
The psalm closes by joining God's kingship to His sure word and the holiness of His dwelling. His statutes are as firm as His throne, and His people are called to holiness fitting His presence. This holiness is supremely upheld in Christ, who sanctifies His people as God's holy temple (1 Peter 1:16; Hebrews 12:14).
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- Ps 119:111Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- Ps 19:7–8The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
- Ps 29:2Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness.
- Lev 19:2“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
- Ps 119:129Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.
- 1 Cor 3:16–17Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- Ps 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
- Ps 119:138The testimonies You have laid down are righteous and altogether faithful.
- Heb 12:14Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
- Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- Ps 99:5Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool; He is holy!
- Ps 99:9Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy.
- Lev 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- John 4:24God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
- Rev 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- Heb 6:17–18So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
- Ps 5:4–7For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
- 1 Jn 5:9–13Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.
- Isa 52:11Depart, depart, go out from there! Touch no unclean thing; come out from it, purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the LORD.
- Zech 14:20–21On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.
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