'Place' in the Bible

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.

He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

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.

For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.

Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.

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

God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.

Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)

Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.

You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.

You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.

We see your going, O God: even the going of my God, my King, into the holy place.

O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.

Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.

Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)

So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;

And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens.

Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.

The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.

Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom.

I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.

So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.

You are my secret place and my breastplate against danger; my hope is in your word.

Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

Truly, the upright will give praise to your name: the holy will have a place in your house.

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.

Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.