Psalms 132:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 68:16 : 16 Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.
  • Ps 76:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Neginoth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song.> In Judah is the knowledge of God; his name is great in Israel, 2 In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.
  • Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure. 69 And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.
  • Ps 87:2 : 2 The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.
  • Isa 14:32 : 32 What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.
  • Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to the mountain of Zion, to the place of the living God, to the Jerusalem which is in heaven, and to an army of angels which may not be numbered,
  • Ps 48:1-3 : 1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain. 2 Beautiful in its high position, the joy of all the earth, is the mountain of Zion, the mountain of God, the town of the great King. 3 In its buildings God is seen to be a high tower.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 132:14
    88%

    14This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

  • Ps 135:4
    80%

    4For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

  • 2 Chr 6:5-7
    3 verses
    79%

    5From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

    6But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

    7Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Ps 78:68-70
    3 verses
    78%

    68But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

    69And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

    70He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

  • Zech 2:12
    77%

    12For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

  • Ps 69:35
    76%

    35For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

  • Ps 87:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1<Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.> This house is resting on the holy mountain.

    2The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.

  • Ps 33:12
    76%

    12Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

  • Ps 102:16
    75%

    16When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;

  • Ps 68:16
    75%

    16Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

  • 1 Kgs 8:16
    75%

    16From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

  • Ps 26:8
    75%

    8Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

  • 2 Chr 7:16
    75%

    16For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

  • Ps 2:6
    74%

    6But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

  • Ps 135:21
    74%

    21Praise be to the Lord out of Zion, even to the Lord whose house is in Jerusalem, Let the Lord be praised.

  • Isa 33:5
    74%

    5The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.

  • Ps 76:2
    73%

    2In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.

  • Isa 34:17
    73%

    17And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • Ps 102:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.

    14For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.

  • 1 Kgs 11:32
    73%

    32(But one tribe will be his, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town which, out of all the tribes of Israel, I have made mine,)

  • Ps 65:4
    73%

    4Happy 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.

  • Ps 147:12
    73%

    12Give praise to the Lord, O Jerusalem; give praise to your God, O Zion.

  • 1 Chr 23:25
    73%

    25For David said, The Lord, the God of Israel, has given his people rest, and he has made his resting-place in Jerusalem for ever;

  • Ps 132:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11The Lord gave a true oath to David, which he will not take back, saying, I will give your kingdom to the fruit of your body.

    12If your children keep my word, and the teachings which I will give them, their children will be rulers of your kingdom for ever.

  • Ps 47:4
    72%

    4He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)

  • 1 Chr 28:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    4Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;

    5And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

    6And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.

  • 1 Kgs 8:13
    72%

    13So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • Ps 15:1
    72%

    1<A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

  • Ps 132:5
    72%

    5Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.

  • Ps 128:5
    72%

    5May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

  • Ps 134:3
    72%

    3May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, send you blessing out of Zion,

  • 2 Sam 5:7
    72%

    7But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.

  • Deut 18:5
    71%

    5For he, and his sons after him for ever, have been marked out by the Lord your God from all your tribes, to do the work of priests in the name of the Lord.

  • Ps 125:1
    71%

    1<A Song of the going up.> Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.

  • Zech 2:10
    71%

    10Ho, ho! go in flight from the land of the north, says the Lord: for I have sent you far and wide to the four winds of heaven, says the Lord.

  • Ps 146:10
    71%

    10The Lord will be King for ever; your God, O Zion, will be King through all generations. Praise be to the Lord.

  • Ps 122:5
    71%

    5For there seats for the judges were placed, even the rulers' seats of the line of David.

  • 1 Chr 17:9
    71%

    9And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first,

  • Ps 27:4
    71%

    4One 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.

  • 2 Chr 6:2
    71%

    2So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 1 Chr 17:12
    71%

    12He will be the builder of my house, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.