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Christian Standard Bible ®

Psalms 26:8

Lord, I love the house where you dwell,the place where your glory resides.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Affections;   Worship;   Thompson Chain Reference - House of God;   Love;   Worship;   Worship, True and False;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affections, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Building;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Dwelling;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Glory;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Omnipresence;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 24;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
LORD, I love the habitation of your house, The place where your glory dwells.
King James Version
Lord , I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
English Standard Version
O Lord , I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.
New Century Version
Lord , I love the Temple where you live, where your glory is.
New English Translation
O Lord , I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.
Amplified Bible
O LORD, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.
New American Standard Bible
LORD, I love the dwelling of Your house, And the place where Your glory remains.
World English Bible
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, The place where your glory dwells.
Geneva Bible (1587)
O Lorde, I haue loued the habitation of thine house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Legacy Standard Bible
O Yahweh, I love the habitation of Your houseAnd the place where Your glory dwells.
Berean Standard Bible
O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
Contemporary English Version
I love the temple where you live, and where your glory shines.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai , I love the house where you live, the place where your glory abides.
Darby Translation
Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , I love the house where you live, the place where your glory is.
George Lamsa Translation
LORD, I have loved the ritual of thy house and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
Good News Translation
I love the house where you live, O Lord , the place where your glory dwells.
Lexham English Bible
O Yahweh, I love the dwelling of your house, and the place where your glory abides.
Literal Translation
O Jehovah, I have loved the place of Your house, and the place where Your glory dwells.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
LORDE, I loue the habitacion of thy house, and ye place where thy honoure dwelleth.
American Standard Version
Jehovah, I love the habitation of thy house, And the place where thy glory dwelleth.
Bible in Basic English
Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
LORD, I love the habitation of Thy house, and the place where Thy glory dwelleth.
King James Version (1611)
Lord, I haue loued the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O God, I haue loued the habitation of thine house: and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house, and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory.
English Revised Version
LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, Y haue loued the fairnesse of thin hows; and the place of the dwellyng of thi glorie.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, And the place where your glory dwells.
Webster's Bible Translation
LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy honor dwelleth.
New King James Version
LORD, I have loved the habitation of Your house, And the place where Your glory dwells.
New Living Translation
I love your sanctuary, Lord , the place where your glorious presence dwells.
New Life Bible
O Lord, I love the house where You live, the place where Your shining-greatness lives.
New Revised Standard
O Lord , I love the house in which you dwell, and the place where your glory abides.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O Yahweh, I have loved the asylum of thy house, even the place of the habitation of thy glory!
Douay-Rheims Bible
(25-8) I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth.
Revised Standard Version
O LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwells.
Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.
THE MESSAGE
God , I love living with you; your house glows with your glory. When it's time for spring cleaning, don't sweep me out with the quacks and crooks, Men with bags of dirty tricks, women with purses stuffed with bribe-money.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
O Lord , I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.

Contextual Overview

6I wash my hands in innocenceand go around your altar, Lord, 7raising my voice in thanksgivingand telling about your wondrous works. 8Lord, I love the house where you dwell,the place where your glory resides.9Do not destroy me along with sinners,or my life along with men of bloodshed 10in whose hands are evil schemesand whose right hands are filled with bribes. 11But I live with integrity;redeem me and be gracious to me. 12My foot stands on level ground;I will bless the Lord in the assemblies.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord: Psalms 27:4-6, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 84:1, Psalms 84:2, Psalms 84:10, Psalms 122:1-4, Psalms 122:9, 2 Samuel 15:25, 1 Chronicles 29:3, Isaiah 38:20, Isaiah 38:22, Luke 2:46, Luke 2:49, Luke 19:45-47, John 2:14-17

where: etc. Heb. of the tabernacle of thine honour, Psalms 63:2, Psalms 63:3, Exodus 25:21, Exodus 25:22, Exodus 40:34, Exodus 40:35, 2 Chronicles 5:14, 2 Chronicles 6:1, 2 Chronicles 6:2

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:4 - Unto Deuteronomy 18:6 - and come with 1 Samuel 4:13 - his heart 1 Samuel 4:18 - when he made 1 Samuel 4:21 - The glory Ezra 7:15 - whose habitation Nehemiah 13:31 - Remember Psalms 5:6 - the bloody Isaiah 66:10 - all ye that love Matthew 23:21 - and by John 7:10 - then

Cross-References

Genesis 26:18
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.
Genesis 26:19
Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of spring water there.
Judges 5:28
Sisera’s mother looked through the window;she peered through the lattice, crying out:“Why is his chariot so long in coming?Why don’t I hear the hoofbeats of his horses?”
Proverbs 7:6
At the window of my houseI looked through my lattice.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life, which has been given to you under the sun, all your fleeting days. For that is your portion in life and in your struggle under the sun.
Song of Solomon 2:9
My love is like a gazelleor a young stag.See, he is standing behind our wall,gazing through the windows,peering through the lattice.
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a young woman,so your sons will marry you;and as a groom rejoices over his bride,so your God will rejoice over you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house,.... Meaning the tabernacle, for as yet the temple was not built; which was an habitation for the saints, where they chose to dwell, and reckoned it their happiness, and was the habitation of the Lord himself: the sanctuary was built for that purpose; and between the cherubim, over the mercy seat, he took up his residence; hence it follows,

and the place where thine honour dwelleth: or "glory" a: when the tabernacle was set up, the glory of the Lord filled it, as it did the temple, when it was dedicated, Exodus 40:35. The psalmist expresses his love to this place, in opposition to the, congregation of evildoers, which he hated, Psalms 26:5; and to remove a calumny from him, that being among the Philistines, and at a distance from the house of God, his affections were alienated from it; whereas it was his greatest concern that he was debarred the privileges of it; see Psalms 42:1; besides, he had showed his great regard to it by his constant attendance before his exile, as he did after it,

Psalms 42:3; and it was out of pure love to the worship of God, and with real pleasure and delight, that he did attend; and not through custom, and in mere form, Psalms 122:1. The Lord's house is loved by his people, because of his word and ordinances, which are ministered there, and because of his presence in it: or else what was typified by the tabernacle in here designed; either the tabernacle of Christ's human nature, called the true tabernacle, Hebrews 8:2; in which the fulness of the Godhead dwells; which the Son of God, the brightness of his Father's glory, inhabits; and in the redemption and salvation wrought out in it the glory of all the divine attributes is displayed; and Christ incarnate is the mercy seat from which God communes with his people, and is their way of access unto him, and whereby they have fellowship with him; and who is loved by the saints sincerely, above all creatures and things, and in the most ardent and affectionate manner: or heaven itself, of which the tabernacle was a figure, Hebrews 9:24; which is the habitation of the holiness and glory of God, and in which are many mansions or dwelling places for his people; and is the continuing city they seek, the heavenly and better country they are desirous of, and where their hearts and affections are; because there their God, their Saviour, and their treasure be; which sense seems to be confirmed by what follows.

a כבוכך "gloria tua", Musculus, Piscator; "tabernaculum gloriae tuae", Junius Tremellius, Cocceius, Gejerus so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house - I have loved to dwell in Thy house. See the notes at Psalms 23:6. The psalmist often refers to his delight in the house of God - the place of public worship; his love to be there united with the people of God in the solemn services of religion. Compare Psalms 84:1-2, Psalms 84:4,Psalms 84:10; Psalms 27:4.

And the place where thine honour dwelleth - Margin, “the tabernacle of thine honor.” This might indeed refer to the tabernacle; and the idea might be that he loved the place where that rested in its wanderings. But the more correct meaning is, that he loved the place where the “glory” of God - the Shekinah - the symbol of His presence - rested; that is, the place where God was pleased to manifest Himself, and where He dwelt. Wherever that was, he found pleasure in being there; and that he did thus love the place where God manifested Himself, was to his own mind an evidence of true piety. It is always an evidence of piety, for there can be no true religion where the soul does not find pleasure in the worship of God. A person who does not delight in such a service here, is not prepared for heaven, where God eternally dwells.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 26:8. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house — I have carefully used thine ordinances, that I might obtain more grace to help me to persevere. And I have not been attentive to those duties, merely because they were incumbent on me; but I have loved the place where thine honour dwelleth; and my delight in thy ordinances has made my attendance as pleasant as it was profitable. This verse would be better translated, Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory. The habitation must mean the holy of holies, where the Divine Presence was manifest; and the place of the tabernacle must refer to the mercy-seat, or the place where the glory of the Lord appeared between the cherubim, upon the lid or cover of the ark of the covenant. From his dwelling there, משכן mishcan, the place and the appearance were called שכינה shechinah; the dwelling of Jehovah, or that glorious appearance which was the symbol of the Divine Presence.


 
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