Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“This is My resting place forever;
Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

King James Version

This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

Holman Bible

“This is My resting place forever;
I will make My home here
because I have desired it.

International Standard Version

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, because I desire to do so.

A Conservative Version

This is my resting place forever. Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

American Standard Version

This is my resting-place for ever: Here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

Amplified


“This is My resting place forever” [says the Lord];
“Here will I dwell, for I have desired it.

Darby Translation

This is my rest for ever; here will I dwell, for I have desired it.

Julia Smith Translation

This my rest even forever: here I will dwell, for I desired it

King James 2000

This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"This [is] my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

Modern King James verseion

This is My rest forever; here I will dwell; for I have desired it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"This shall be my rest; here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein.

NET Bible

He said, "This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.

New Heart English Bible

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

The Emphasized Bible

This, is my place of rest unto futurity, Here, will I dwell, for I have desired it;

Webster

This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

World English Bible

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

Youngs Literal Translation

This is My rest for ever and ever, Here do I sit, for I have desired it.

References

Context Readings

David And Zion Chosen

13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.
14 “This is My resting place forever;
Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
15 “I will abundantly bless her provision;
I will satisfy her needy with bread.


Cross References

Psalm 132:8

Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place,
You and the ark of Your strength.

1 Kings 8:13

I have surely built You a lofty house,
A place for Your dwelling forever.”

1 Kings 8:27

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You, how much less this house which I have built!

Psalm 68:16

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,
At the mountain which God has desired for His abode?
Surely the Lord will dwell there forever.

Psalm 68:18

You have ascended on high, You have led captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even among the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.

Psalm 76:2

His tabernacle is in Salem;
His dwelling place also is in Zion.

Psalm 87:2

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.

Psalm 135:21

Blessed be the Lord from Zion,
Who dwells in Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!

Isaiah 8:18

Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

Isaiah 11:10

Then in that day
The nations will resort to the root of Jesse,
Who will stand as a signal for the peoples;
And His resting place will be glorious.

Isaiah 12:6

Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and exalted One
Who lives forever, whose name is Holy,
“I dwell on a high and holy place,
And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:1

Thus says the Lord,
Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool.
Where then is a house you could build for Me?
And where is a place that I may rest?

Joel 3:21

And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged,
For the Lord dwells in Zion.

Zephaniah 3:17

“The Lord your God is in your midst,
A victorious warrior.
He will exult over you with joy,
He will be quiet in His love,
He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

Matthew 23:21

And whoever swears by the temple, swears both by the temple and by Him who dwells within it.

Ephesians 2:22

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

Hebrews 12:22

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

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