Psalms 46:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.”
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“There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.”
King James Version · Public Domain“There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A river--its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 46:4 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 6:6But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- Psalms 23:2He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters.
- Psalms 36:8They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
- Psalms 43:3Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
- Psalms 48:1Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
- Psalms 48:8As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish her forever. Selah
- Psalms 65:9You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Psalms 87:3Glorious things are ascribed to you, O city of God. Selah
- Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Psalms 92:1It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
- Psalms 92:8But You, O LORD, are exalted forever!
- Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
- Isaiah 8:6“Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
- Isaiah 8:7the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates— the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
- Isaiah 37:35‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
- Isaiah 48:18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
- Isaiah 60:14The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
- Ezekiel 47:1Then the man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.
- Micah 6:6With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
- Hebrews 12:22Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to myriads of angels
- Revelation 21:2I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Revelation 21:10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
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