Psalms 27:4

World English Bible (2000)

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

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  • Ps 26:8 : 8 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
  • Ps 23:6 : 6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever. A Psalm by David.
  • Ps 65:4 : 4 Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
  • Ps 63:2-5 : 2 So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory. 3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. 4 So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
  • Ps 84:4 : 4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
  • Ps 27:8 : 8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
  • Phil 3:13 : 13 Brothers, I don't regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.
  • Ps 90:17 : 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
  • Luke 11:9-9 : 9 "I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 "Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
  • Luke 18:1 : 1 He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
  • Jer 29:13 : 13 You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."
  • Ps 50:2 : 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
  • 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of the word of Yahweh, which he didn't keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire [thereby], 14 and didn't inquire of Yahweh: therefore he killed him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
  • Dan 9:3 : 3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
  • 1 Sam 1:11 : 11 She vowed a vow, and said, "Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head."
  • 1 Sam 30:8 : 8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all."
  • 2 Sam 21:1 : 1 There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites."

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  • 8 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

  • 5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

  • Ps 27:7-8
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    7 Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

    8 When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

  • 6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh's house forever. A Psalm by David.

  • 25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

  • 10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

  • Ps 132:13-14
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    13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

    14 "This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, for I have desired it.

  • 4 Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

  • 2 So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

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    7 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

  • 4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'

  • Ps 84:1-2
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    1 How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

    2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

  • 9 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good. A Song of Ascents.

  • 4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.

  • 1 Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

  • 27 For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, 'I will build you a house.' Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

  • 15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

  • 5 until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob."

  • 3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

  • 4 Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

  • 4 I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.

  • 5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.

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    27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

    28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day;

  • 10 With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

  • 16 For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

  • 25 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

  • 4 Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

  • 16 As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

  • 16 Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

  • 40 Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW

  • 6 I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

  • 16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

  • 9 With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

  • 2 I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

  • 19 in the courts of Yahweh's house, in the midst of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

  • 11 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. A Prayer by David.

  • 23 Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.

  • 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

  • 1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"

  • 1 Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

  • 5 Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he doesn't make it grow.

  • 4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

  • 8 Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

  • 2 you who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of our God's house.

  • 1 Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

  • 1 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.