Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
  • Ps 36:8 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
  • Ps 84:4 : 4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
  • Ps 63:5 : 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,
  • Ps 4:3 : 3 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.
  • Ps 15:1 : 1 Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
  • Ps 17:15 : 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,
  • 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 24:7 : 7 Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
  • Ps 106:4-5 : 4 Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation, 5 that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
  • Rev 7:16-17 : 16 They will never be hungry, neither thirsty any more; neither will the sun beat on them, nor any heat; 17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."
  • Rev 21:3-4 : 3 I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, "Behold, God's dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."
  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
  • Ps 135:4 : 4 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
  • Jer 31:12-14 : 12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. 14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 31:25 : 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
  • Ps 78:70-71 : 70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; 71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.