Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God. Selah.

King James Version

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

Holman Bible

Glorious things are said about you,
city of God.Selah

International Standard Version

Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Interlude

A Conservative Version

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

American Standard Version

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah

Amplified


Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God [Jerusalem]. Selah.

Bible in Basic English

Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)

Darby Translation

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

Julia Smith Translation

Honored things being spoken in thee, O city of God. Silence.

King James 2000

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Glorious things [are] spoken about you, O city of God. Selah

Modern King James verseion

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Very excellent things are spoken of thee, thou city of God. Selah.

NET Bible

People say wonderful things about you, O city of God. (Selah)

New Heart English Bible

Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.

The Emphasized Bible

Glorious things, are to be spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

Webster

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

World English Bible

Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.

Youngs Literal Translation

Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.

Context Readings

Zion, The City Of God

2 The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God. Selah.
4 “I shall mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me;
Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’”


Cross References

Psalm 46:4

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

Psalm 48:2-3

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion in the far north,
The city of the great King.

Psalm 48:11-13

Let Mount Zion be glad,
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
Because of Your judgments.

Psalm 125:1-2

A Song of Ascents.
Those who trust in the Lord
Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 49:14-26

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me,
And the Lord has forgotten me.”

Isaiah 54:2-10

Enlarge the place of your tent;
Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not;
Lengthen your cords
And strengthen your pegs.

Isaiah 59:20-22

“A Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” declares the Lord.

Isaiah 61:3-12

To grant those who mourn in Zion,
Giving them a garland instead of ashes,
The oil of gladness instead of mourning,
The mantle of praise instead of a spirit of fainting.
So they will be called oaks of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

Jeremiah 3:14-17

‘Return, O faithless sons,’ declares the Lord;
‘For I am a master to you,
And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,
And I will bring you to Zion.’

Jeremiah 31:12-13

“They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion,
And they will be radiant over the bounty of the Lord
Over the grain and the new wine and the oil,
And over the young of the flock and the herd;
And their life will be like a watered garden,
And they will never languish again.

Ezekiel 36:2

Thus says the Lord God, “Because the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,’

Ezekiel 36:11-38

I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 37:27-28

My dwelling place also will be with them; and I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Ezekiel 40:1-49

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.

Ezekiel 48:1-35

“Now these are the names of the tribes: from the northern extremity, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, toward the north beside Hamath, running from east to west, Dan, one portion.

Hebrews 12:22-23

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads.

Revelation 21:10-27

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

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