Parallel Verses

Amplified

How lovely are Your dwelling places,
O Lord of hosts!

New American Standard Bible

For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
How lovely are Your dwelling places,
O Lord of hosts!

King James Version

{To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

Holman Bible

For the choir director: on the Gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah.How lovely is Your dwelling place,
Lord of Hosts.

International Standard Version

How lovely are your dwelling places, LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

A Conservative Version

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

American Standard Version

How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!

Bible in Basic English

How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

Darby Translation

{To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.} How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!

Julia Smith Translation

To the overseer upon the stringed instrument: to the sons of Korah, a chanting. How beloved are thy tents, O Jehovah of armies!

King James 2000

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.] How lovely are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

Lexham Expanded Bible

How lovely [are] your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts!

Modern King James verseion

To the Chief Musician. On Gittith. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Jehovah of Hosts!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

{Upon Gittith, a Psalm of the sons of Korah} O how amiable are thy dwellings, thou LORD of Hosts!

NET Bible

For the music director; according to the gittith style; written by the Korahites, a psalm. How lovely is the place where you live, O Lord who rules over all!

New Heart English Bible

How lovely are your dwellings, LORD of hosts.

The Emphasized Bible

How lovely are thy habitations, O Yahweh of hosts!

Webster

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

World English Bible

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

Youngs Literal Translation

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' -- A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts!

References

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Context Readings

Longing For God's House

1 How lovely are Your dwelling places,
O Lord of hosts!
2
My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.



Cross References

Psalm 27:4


One thing I have asked of the Lord, and that I will seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life,
To gaze upon the beauty [the delightful loveliness and majestic grandeur] of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.

Psalm 8:1

O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic and glorious and excellent is Your name in all the earth!
You have displayed Your splendor above the heavens.

Psalm 43:3


O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.

Psalm 132:5


Until I find a place for the Lord,
A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob (Israel).”

1 Kings 22:19

Micaiah said, “Therefore, hear the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host (army) of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.

Nehemiah 9:6


[And Ezra said],
“You are the Lord, You alone;
You have made the heavens,
The heaven of heavens with all their host (the heavenly bodies),
The earth and everything that is on it,
The seas and everything that is in them.
You give life to all of them,
And the heavenly host is bowing down [in worship] to You.

Psalm 36:8


They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;
And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.

Psalm 48:1-2

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

Psalm 81:1

Sing aloud to God our strength;
Shout for joy to the God of Jacob (Israel).

Psalm 87:2-3


The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob (Israel).

Psalm 103:20-21


Bless the Lord, you His angels,
You mighty ones who do His commandments,
Obeying the voice of His word!

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Isaiah 6:2-3

Above Him seraphim (heavenly beings) stood; each one had six wings: with two wings he covered his face, with two wings he covered his feet, and with two wings he flew.

Hebrews 9:23-24

Therefore it was necessary for the [earthly] copies of the heavenly things to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves required far better sacrifices than these.

Revelation 21:2-3

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, arrayed like a bride adorned for her husband;

Revelation 21:22-23

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty [the Omnipotent, the Ruler of all] and the Lamb are its temple.

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