Psalm 132:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ For the Lord has chosen Zion, He has desired it for His habitation:

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation.

Common English Bible

¹³ Because the LORD chose Zion; he wanted it for his home.

Psalm 132:13 Cross References

Hebrews 12:22

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,

Psalm 87:2

the Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Psalm 68:16

Why do you look with envy, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, where the Lord will reside forever?

Isaiah 14:32

What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The Lord has founded Zion, and the needy among his people will find refuge in her.”

1 Kings 11:13

I will not, however, tear away the entire kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

2 Chronicles 7:16

For now I have chosen and consecrated this house so that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there for all time.

Ezra 1:3

Let any of those among you who are of his people—may their God be with them!—go up to Jerusalem in Judah and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel; he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

Psalm 9:12

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.