Psalm 26:8
New International Version
LORD, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells.

New Living Translation
I love your sanctuary, LORD, the place where your glorious presence dwells.

English Standard Version
O LORD, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.

Berean Standard Bible
O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

King James Bible
LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

New King James Version
LORD, I have loved 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.

NASB 1995
O LORD, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.

NASB 1977
O LORD, I love the habitation of Thy house, And the place where Thy glory dwells.

Legacy Standard Bible
O Yahweh, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.

Amplified Bible
O LORD, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.

Christian Standard Bible
LORD, I love the house where you dwell, the place where your glory resides.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

American Standard Version
Jehovah, I love the habitation of thy house, And the place where thy glory dwelleth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH, I have loved the service of your house and the dwelling place of your glory.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
O Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy house, and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory.

Contemporary English Version
I love the temple where you live, and where your glory shines.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

English Revised Version
LORD, I love the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
O LORD, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells.

Good News Translation
I love the house where you live, O LORD, the place where your glory dwells.

International Standard Version
LORD, I love the dwelling place that is your house, the place where your glory resides.

JPS Tanakh 1917
LORD, I love the habitation of Thy house, And the place where Thy glory dwelleth.

Literal Standard Version
YHWH, I have loved the habitation of Your house, | And the place of the Dwelling Place of Your glory.

Majority Standard Bible
O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

New American Bible
Lord, I love the refuge of your house, the site of the dwelling-place of your glory.

NET Bible
O LORD, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.

New Revised Standard Version
O LORD, I love the house in which you dwell, and the place where your glory abides.

New Heart English Bible
LORD, I love the habitation of your house, 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.

World English Bible
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Vindicate Me, O LORD
7to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works. 8O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides. 9Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,…

Cross References
Matthew 23:21
And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it.

1 Samuel 2:29
Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.'

1 Samuel 4:21
And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.

Psalm 24:7
Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

Psalm 24:9
Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!

Psalm 27:4
One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.

Psalm 29:9
The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, "Glory!"


Treasury of Scripture

LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells.

Lord

Psalm 27:4-6
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple…

Psalm 42:4
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Psalm 84:1,2,10
To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! …

where [heb.

Psalm 63:2,3
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary…

Exodus 25:21,22
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee…

Exodus 40:34,35
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle…

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Verse 8. - Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house; i.e. "the home that thy house affords me." It has been my delight to remain there, to pass long hours there, as it were to dwell there (comp. Psalm 23:6; Psalm 27:4; Psalm 63:2). And the place where thine honour dwelleth; literally, the place of the tabernacling of thy glory - the place where thy glory - the Shechinah - is enshrined and abides.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
O LORD,
יְֽהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

I love
אָ֭הַבְתִּי (’ā·haḇ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

the house
בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ (bê·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

where You dwell,
מְע֣וֹן (mə·‘ō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4583: An abode, of God, men, animals, a retreat

the place
וּ֝מְק֗וֹם (ū·mə·qō·wm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

where Your glory
כְּבוֹדֶֽךָ׃ (kə·ḇō·w·ḏe·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3519: Weight, splendor, copiousness

resides.
מִשְׁכַּ֥ן (miš·kan)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4908: A residence, the Tabernacle


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