Psalms 26:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

O LORD, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְֽהוָ֗ה אָ֭הַבְתִּי מְע֣וֹן בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ וּ֝מְק֗וֹם מִשְׁכַּ֥ן כְּבוֹדֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

YHWH ʾāhaḇtî məʿôn bêṯeḵā and-məqôm miškan kəḇôḏeḵā.

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *ʾāhaḇtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have loved
• *məʿôn*: noun construct - dwelling/habitation of
• *bêṯeḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your house
• *məqôm*: noun construct - place of
• *miškan*: noun construct - tabernacle/dwelling of
• *kəḇôḏeḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your glory

Word Meanings

• *ʾāhaḇtî*: I have loved/I love
• *məʿôn* *bêṯeḵā*: habitation of your house/dwelling of your house
• *məqôm* *miškan* *kəḇôḏeḵā*: place of the dwelling of your glory/location where your glory abides

Referenced Verses

• Luke 2:49 : 49 But he replied,“Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
• John 2:14-17 : 14 He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables. 15 So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold the doves he said,“Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father’s house a marketplace!” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written,“Zeal for your house will devour me.”
• Luke 19:45-47 : 45 Cleansing the Temple Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there, 46 saying to them,“It is written,‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!” 47 Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the prominent leaders among the people were seeking to assassinate him,
• Exod 25:21-22 : 21 You are to put the atonement lid on top of the ark, and in the ark you are to put the testimony I am giving you. 22 I will meet with you there, and from above the atonement lid, from between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will command you for the Israelites.
• Exod 40:34-35 : 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
• 2 Sam 15:25 : 25 Then the king said to Zadok,“Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.
• 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple.
• 2 Chr 5:14-6:2 : 14 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s splendor filled God’s temple. 1 Then Solomon said,“The LORD has said that he lives in thick darkness. 2 O LORD, I have built a lofty temple for you, a place where you can live permanently.”
• Ps 27:4-6 : 4 I have asked the LORD for one thing– this is what I desire! I want to live in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the LORD and contemplate in his temple. 5 He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit. 6 Now I will triumph over my enemies who surround me! I will offer sacrifices in his dwelling place and shout for joy! I will sing praises to the LORD!
• Ps 42:4 : 4 I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.
• Ps 63:2-3 : 2 Yes, in the sanctuary I have seen you, and witnessed your power and splendor. 3 Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you.
• Ps 84:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the gittith style; written by the Korahites, a psalm. How lovely is the place where you live, O LORD of Heaven’s Armies! 2 I desperately want to be in the courts of the LORD’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.
• Ps 84:10 : 10 Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.
• Ps 122:1-4 : 1 A song of ascents, by David. I was glad because they said to me,“We will go to the LORD’s temple.” 2 Our feet are standing inside your gates, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is a city designed to accommodate an assembly. 4 The tribes go up there, the tribes of the LORD, where it is required that Israel give thanks to the name of the LORD.
• Ps 122:9 : 9 For the sake of the temple of the LORD our God I will pray for you to prosper.
• Isa 38:20 : 20 The LORD is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the LORD’s temple.”
• Isa 38:22 : 22 Hezekiah said,“What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the LORD’s temple?”
• Luke 2:46 : 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.