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Psalms 84:1

In 11 translations

BSB
How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
KJV
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!for the sons: or, of the sons
WEB
How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
ASV
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!
LSV
TO THE OVERSEER. ON THE GITTITH. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. How beloved Your dwelling places, YHWH of Hosts!
YLT
To the Overseer. — 'On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' — A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts!
DBY
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!
DRC83:2
How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of host!
GNV
To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. O Lord of hostes, howe amiable are thy Tabernacles!
JPS84:2
How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
LXXE83:2
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

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Original-language editions

WLC84:2
מַה־יְּדִיד֥וֹת מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶ֗יךָ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃KJV:Ps.84.1
LXX-Br83:2
Ὡς ἀγαπητὰ τὰ σκηνώματά σου Κύριε τῶν δυνάμεων.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
  • Psalms 43:3Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
  • Psalms 36:8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
  • Psalms 122:1I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
  • Psalms 132:5until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
  • Revelation 21:22–23But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
  • Psalms 8:1O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens.
  • Nehemiah 9:6You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships…
  • Revelation 21:2–3I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man,…
  • Hebrews 9:23–24So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true…
  • Isaiah 6:2–3Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling out to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is…
  • 1 Kings 22:19Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
  • Psalms 48:1–2Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain. Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
  • Psalms 103:20–21Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command. Bless the LORD, all His hosts, you servants who do His will.
  • Psalms 81:1Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
  • Psalms 87:2–3The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 84:2 in some Bibles
  • 84:1-2 in some Bibles
  • 84:1 in most Bibles

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