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Psalms 68:16

WEB

16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, the LORD[+] will dwell there forever.

KJV

16Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

BSB

16Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.

FBV

16why do you look enviously, mountain with many peaks, at the mountain God chose as his home, where the Lord will live forever?


Extra References

Deuteronomy 12:5

5But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.


Psalms 132:13-14

13For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. 14This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.


Hebrews 12:22-23

22But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels, 23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,


Deuteronomy 12:11

11then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.


Revelation 21:2-3

2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. 3I 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.


Psalms 114:6

6You mountains, that you skipped like rams? You little hills, like lambs?


Isaiah 2:2

2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.


1 Kings 9:3

3The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.


Psalms 114:4

4The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs.


Psalms 87:1-2

1His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.