Psalm 68:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ O mountain of peaks, why do you gaze in envy At the mountain which Elohim desired to dwell in; יהוה even dwells there forever.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Why do you look with grudging and envy, you many-peaked mountains, at the mountain [of the city called Zion] which God has desired for His dwelling place? Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, At the mountain which God hath desired for his abode? Yea, Jehovah will dwell in it for ever.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You many-peaked mountain: Why do you look with envy at the mountain God desired for his dwelling, the mountain where the LORD dwells forever?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psalm 68:16 Cross References

1 Kings 9:3

And יהוה said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me. I have set this house apart which you have built to put My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall always be there.

Psalm 114:4

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

Psalm 114:6

O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O little hills, like lambs?

Isaiah 2:2

And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the House of יהוה is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.

Deuteronomy 12:11

“And it shall be, that unto the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell there, there you are to bring all that I command you: your ascending offerings, and your slaughters, and your tithes, and the contributions of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to יהוה.

Deuteronomy 12:5

but seek the place which יהוה your Elohim chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His Name there, for His Dwelling Place, and there you shall enter.