Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Lift up your heads, you gates!
Rise up, ancient doors!
Then 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.

International Standard Version

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

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.

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 Such is the generation of those who seek Him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.Selah
7 Lift up your heads, you gates!
Rise up, ancient doors!
Then the King of glory will come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle.


Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:8

None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Isaiah 26:2

Open the gates
so a righteous nation can come in—
one that remains faithful.

Psalm 97:6

The heavens proclaim His righteousness;
all the peoples see His glory.

2 Samuel 6:17

They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent David had set up for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the Lord’s presence.

Psalm 118:19-20

Open the gates of righteousness for me;
I will enter through them
and give thanks to the Lord.

Numbers 10:35-36

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say:

Arise, Lord!
Let Your enemies be scattered,
and those who hate You flee from Your presence.

1 Kings 8:6

The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place beneath the wings of the cherubim.

1 Kings 8:11

and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple.

Psalm 21:1

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, the king finds joy in Your strength.
How greatly he rejoices in Your victory!

Psalm 21:5

His glory is great through Your victory;
You confer majesty and splendor on him.

Psalm 68:16-18

Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,
at the mountain God desired for His dwelling?
The Lord will live there forever!

Psalm 132:8

Rise up, Lord, come to Your resting place,
You and Your powerful ark.

Haggai 2:7

I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Haggai 2:9

“The final glory of this house will be greater than the first,” says the Lord of Hosts. “I will provide peace in this place”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.

Malachi 3:1

“See, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. Then the Lord you seek will suddenly come to His temple, the Messenger of the covenant you desire—see, He is coming,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Mark 16:19

Then after speaking to them, the Lord Jesus was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.

Ephesians 4:8-10

For it says:

When He ascended on high,
He took prisoners into captivity;
He gave gifts to people.

James 2:1

My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 3:22

Now that He has gone into heaven, He is at God’s right hand with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Revelation 4:11

Our Lord and God,
You are worthy to receive
glory and honor and power,
because You have created all things,
and because of Your will
they exist and were created.

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