Psalms 68:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why do you leap, you high hills? This is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yes, the LORD will dwell in it forever.

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  • Deut 12:5 : 5 But you shall seek the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, to His habitation you shall come:
  • Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling. 14 This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
  • Heb 12:22-23 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,
  • Rev 21:2-3 : 2 And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
  • Isa 2:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established on the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
  • Deut 12:11 : 11 Then there will be a place which the LORD your God will choose to make His name dwell there; there you shall bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD:
  • 1 Kgs 9:3 : 3 And the LORD said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before Me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
  • Ps 87:1-2 : 1 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
  • Ps 114:4 : 4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
  • Ps 114:6 : 6 O mountains, that you skipped like rams; and O little hills, like lambs?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 15The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; a high hill as the hill of Bashan.

  • Ps 132:13-14
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    77%

    13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling.

    14This is My resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.

  • Ps 68:17-18
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    77%

    17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

    18You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yes, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

  • 1LORD, who shall abide in Your tabernacle? Who shall dwell on Your holy hill?

  • 6O mountains, that you skipped like rams; and O little hills, like lambs?

  • 3Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? Or who shall stand in His holy place?

  • Ps 78:68-69
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    68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

    69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he has established forever.

  • 14And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

  • Ps 87:1-2
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    74%

    1His foundation is in the holy mountains.

    2The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

  • Ps 125:1-2
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    73%

    1Those who trust in the LORD shall be like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but endures forever.

    2As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people from now on and forevermore.

  • Ps 48:1-3
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    73%

    1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in His holy mountain.

    2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

    3God is known in her palaces as a refuge.

  • 5The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

  • 8LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house and the place where Your honor dwells.

  • 2In Salem also is His tabernacle, and His dwelling place in Zion.

  • 4The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

  • 8But you, LORD, are most high forevermore.

  • 5The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

  • Ps 113:4-5
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    4The LORD is high above all nations, and His glory above the heavens.

    5Who is like the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

  • 1But in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and people shall flow to it.

  • 6He stood and measured the earth; He looked and drove asunder the nations. The everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills bowed; His ways are everlasting.

  • 3For behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

  • 35For God will save Zion and will build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and have it in possession.

  • 1How lovely are your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts!

  • 16When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

  • 19For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven the LORD viewed the earth,

  • 15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,

  • 9For you, LORD, are high above all the earth: you are exalted far above all gods.

  • 3The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, through righteousness.

  • 4One thing I have desired of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.

  • 1Thus says the LORD, The heavens are my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build for me? and where is the place of my rest?

  • 9Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your habitation;

  • 4You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

  • 32He looks on the earth, and it trembles: He touches the hills, and they smoke.

  • 9Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

  • 49Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool. What house will you build for me? says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?

  • 8They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys to the place which You have founded for them.

  • 18But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house which I have built!

  • 18The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

  • 5Until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.

  • 7On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

  • 2The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.

  • 9Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars;