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Bible in Basic English

There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

Holman Bible

There is a river—
its streams delight the city of God,
the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

International Standard Version

Look! There is a river whose streams make the city of God rejoice, even the Holy Place of the Most High.

A Conservative Version

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

American Standard Version

There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Amplified


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

Darby Translation

There is a river the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the sanctuary of the habitations of the Most High.

Julia Smith Translation

A river, its streams will gladden the city of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

King James 2000

There is a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the most High.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[There is] a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High.

Modern King James verseion

There is a river, its channels gladden the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling of the most highest.

NET Bible

The river's channels bring joy to the city of God, the special, holy dwelling place of the sovereign One.

New Heart English Bible

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

The Emphasized Bible

A river! whose channels, shall gladden the city of God, The Most High, hath hallowed his habitation.

Webster

There is a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

World English Bible

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Youngs Literal Translation

A river -- its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

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Context Readings

God Our Refuge

3 Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.) 4 There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High. 5 God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.


Cross References

Psalm 48:1

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain.

Isaiah 60:14

And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Psalm 87:3

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

Deuteronomy 12:11-12

Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

Psalm 36:8-9

The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Psalm 43:3

O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

Psalm 65:9

You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

Psalm 91:1

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

Psalm 92:1

It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Isaiah 8:6-7

Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;

Isaiah 37:35-36

For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

Isaiah 48:18

If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Ezekiel 47:1-12

And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.

Micah 6:6

With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,

Revelation 21:2-3

And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.

Revelation 21:10

And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

Revelation 22:1-3

And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

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