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Bible in Basic English

How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

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!

Amplified

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

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!

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Context Readings

Longing For God's House

1 How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies! 2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.



Cross References

Psalm 27:4

One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

Psalm 8:1

O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!

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.

1 Kings 22:19

And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.

Nehemiah 9:6

You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.

Psalm 36:8

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

Psalm 48:1-2

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

Psalm 81:1

Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.

Psalm 87:2-3

The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.

Psalm 103:20-21

Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.

Psalm 122:1

I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.

Isaiah 6:2-3

Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.

Hebrews 9:23-24

For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

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 21:22-23

And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.

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