“This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
Arise, O Lord, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.
Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”
Blessed be the Lord from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the Lord!
the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”
The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there.
In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it.
Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the Lord dwells in Zion.”
Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the Lord will dwell forever?
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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