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The Earth Is the LORD’s

Psalms 24:9

In 11 translations

BSB
Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
KJV
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
WEB
Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
ASV
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.
LSV
Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O perpetual doors! And the King of Glory comes in!
YLT
Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!
DBY
Lift up your heads, ye gates; yea, lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.
DRC23:9
Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.
GNV
Lift vp your heads, ye gates, and lift vp your selues, ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glorie shall come in.
JPS
Lift up your heads, O ye gates, yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors; that the King of glory may come in.
LXXE23:9
Lift up your gates, ye princes; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the king of glory shall come in.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
שְׂא֤וּ שְׁעָרִ֨ים ׀ רָֽאשֵׁיכֶ֗ם וּ֭שְׂאוּ פִּתְחֵ֣י עוֹלָ֑ם וְ֝יָבֹא מֶ֣לֶךְ הַכָּבֽוֹד׃
LXX-Br23:9
Ἄρατε πύλας οἱ ἄρχοντες ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐπάρθητε πύλαι αἰώνιοι, καὶ εἰσελεύσεται ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆς δόξης.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 23:9 in some Bibles
  • 24:9 in most Bibles

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