Psalms 65:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

How blessed is the one whom you choose, and allow to live in your palace courts. May we be satisfied with the good things of your house– your holy palace.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 33:12 : 12 How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.
  • Ps 36:8 : 8 They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.
  • Ps 84:4 : 4 How blessed are those who live in your temple and praise you continually!(Selah)
  • Ps 63:5 : 5 As if with choice meat you satisfy my soul. My mouth joyfully praises you,
  • Ps 4:3 : 3 Realize that the LORD shows the godly special favor; the LORD responds when I cry out to him.
  • Ps 15:1 : 1 A psalm of David. LORD, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill?
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face; when I awake you will reveal yourself to me.
  • Ps 23:6 : 6 Surely your goodness and faithfulness will pursue me all my days, and I will live in the LORD’s house for the rest of my life.
  • Ps 24:7 : 7 Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter!
  • Ps 106:4-5 : 4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people! Pay attention to me, when you deliver, 5 so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice along with your nation, and boast along with the people who belong to you.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God(the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.
  • Rev 7:16-17 : 16 They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat, 17 because the Lamb in the middle of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
  • Rev 21:3-4 : 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying:“Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more– or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.”
  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 Call to Stand Firm But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 Indeed, the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel to be his special possession.
  • Jer 31:12-14 : 12 They will come and shout for joy on Mount Zion. They will be radiant with joy over the good things the LORD provides, the grain, the fresh wine, the olive oil, the young sheep and calves he has given to them. They will be like a well-watered garden and will not grow faint or weary any more. 13 The LORD says,“At that time young women will dance and be glad. Young men and old men will rejoice. I will turn their grief into gladness. I will give them comfort and joy in place of their sorrow. 14 I will provide the priests with abundant provisions. My people will be filled to the full with the good things I provide.”
  • Jer 31:25 : 25 I will fully satisfy the needs of those who are weary and fully refresh the souls of those who are faint.
  • Ps 78:70-71 : 70 He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds. 71 He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 84:4-5
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    78%

    4How blessed are those who live in your temple and praise you continually!(Selah)

    5How blessed are those who find their strength in you, and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple!

  • 3Our record of sins overwhelms me, but you forgive our acts of rebellion.

  • 8O LORD, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.

  • 2who serve in the LORD’s temple, in the courts of the temple of our God.

  • 1A psalm of David. LORD, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill?

  • 4I 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.

  • 10Certainly 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 132:13-14
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    13Certainly the LORD has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.

    14He said,“This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.

  • 12How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

  • 1For 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!

  • 72%

    7But as for me, because of your great faithfulness I will enter your house; I will bow down toward your holy temple as I worship you.

  • 8They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

  • 19in the courts of the LORD’s temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

  • 15How blessed are the people who worship you! O LORD, they experience your favor.

  • 3Who is allowed to ascend the mountain of the LORD? Who may go up to his holy dwelling place?

  • 26May the one who comes in the name of the LORD be blessed! We will pronounce blessings on you in the LORD’s temple.

  • 5so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice along with your nation, and boast along with the people who belong to you.

  • 1A song of ascents, by David. I was glad because they said to me,“We will go to the LORD’s temple.”

  • 71%

    3Realize that the LORD shows the godly special favor; the LORD responds when I cry out to him.

  • 6For you grant him lasting blessings; you give him great joy by allowing him into your presence.

  • 6Surely your goodness and faithfulness will pursue me all my days, and I will live in the LORD’s house for the rest of my life.

  • 4Indeed, the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel to be his special possession.

  • 5You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?

  • 9We reflect on your loyal love, O God, within your temple.

  • 3As for God’s chosen people who are in the land, and the leading officials I admired so much–

  • 5You answer our prayers by performing awesome acts of deliverance, O God, our savior. All the ends of the earth trust in you, as well as those living across the wide seas.

  • 4He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves.(Selah)

  • 12O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, how blessed are those who trust in you!

  • 4How blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD and does not seek help from the proud or from liars!

  • 4Yes indeed, the man who fears the LORD will be blessed in this way.

  • 3You are holy; you sit as king receiving the praises of Israel.

  • 10for you live among them. You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

  • 16Now I have chosen and consecrated this temple by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.

  • 15How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!

  • 7Let us go to his dwelling place! Let us worship before his footstool!

  • 21The LORD deserves praise in Zion– he who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!

  • 4May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually,“May God be praised!”

  • 4Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give him thanks! Praise his name!

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    6Many say,“Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, LORD!

  • 4For you, O LORD, have made me happy by your work. I will sing for joy because of what you have done.

  • 8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

  • 4May he grant your heart’s desire; may he bring all your plans to pass!

  • 25Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire no one but you on earth.

  • 12How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,

  • 2Yes, in the sanctuary I have seen you, and witnessed your power and splendor.

  • 16Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks, at the mountain where God has decided to live? Indeed the LORD will live there permanently!

  • 4The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven. His eyes watch; his eyes examine all people.

  • 1Book 4(Psalms 90-106) A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!