Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

New American Standard Bible

Lift up your heads, O gates,
And be lifted up, O ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in!

King James Version

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

Holman Bible

Lift up your heads, you gates!
Rise up, ancient doors!
Then the King of glory will come in.

International Standard Version

Lift up your heads, gates! Be lifted up, ancient doors, so the King of Glory may come in.

American Standard Version

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.

Amplified


Lift up your heads, O gates,
And be lifted up, ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in.

Darby Translation

Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

Julia Smith Translation

Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye openings of eternity, and the King of glory shall come in.

King James 2000

Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Lift up your heads, O gates, and rise up, O ancient doorways, that the king of glory may enter.

Modern King James verseion

Lift up your heads, O gates; and be lifted up, O everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

NET Bible

Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter!

New Heart English Bible

Lift up your heads, you gates. Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

The Emphasized Bible

Lift up, O ye gates, your heads, and lift yourselves up, ye age-abiding doors, That the king of glory may come in.

Webster

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

World English Bible

Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

Youngs Literal Translation

Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!

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Context Readings

A Welcome For God Into The Temple

6 This is the generation of those who seek after him, who seek thy face, [even] Jacob. Selah. 7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. 8 Who is the King of glory? LORD strong and mighty, LORD mighty in battle.


Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:8

which none of the rulers of this age know. For if they knew, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Isaiah 26:2

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.

Psalm 97:6

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples have seen his glory.

2 Samuel 6:17

And they brought in the ark of LORD, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before LORD.

Psalm 118:19-20

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to LORD.

Numbers 10:35-36

And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those who hate thee flee before thee.

1 Kings 8:6

And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

1 Kings 8:11

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, for the glory of LORD filled the house of LORD.

Psalm 21:1

The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD. And in thy salvation how greatly he shall rejoice!

Psalm 21:5

His glory is great in thy salvation. Honor and majesty thou do lay upon him.

Psalm 68:16-18

Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, at the mountain which God has desired for his abode? Yea, LORD will dwell [in it] forever.

Psalm 132:8

Arise, O LORD, into thy resting-place, thou, and the ark of thy strength.

Haggai 2:7

And I will shake all nations, and the precious things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, says LORD of hosts.

Haggai 2:9

The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says LORD of hosts, and in this place I will give peace, says LORD of hosts.

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. And LORD, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he comes, says LORD of hosts.

Mark 16:19

Therefore indeed, the Lord, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Ephesians 4:8-10

Therefore he says, Having ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.

James 2:1

My brothers, ye should not have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, in favoritism.

1 Peter 3:22

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, agents, and positions of authority, and powers having been subordinated to him.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him is the glory both now and into the day of the age. Truly.

Revelation 4:11

Thou are worthy, our Lord and God, the Holy, to take the glory and the honor and the power, because thou created all things, and because by thy will they are, and were created.

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