Psalm 27:4 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁴ One thing I of the Lord desir'd, and will seek to obtain, That all days of my life I may within God's house remain; That I the beauty of the Lord behold may and admire, And that I in his holy place may rev'rently enquire.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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 enquire in his temple.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek, inquire for, and [insistently] require: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty [the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness] of the Lord and to meditate, consider, and inquire in His temple. [Ps. 16:11; 18:6; 65:4; Luke 2:37.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.

Common English Bible

⁴ I have asked one thing from the LORD— it’s all I seek: to live in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, seeing the LORD’s beauty and constantly adoring his temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Give to them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Assign to them according to the works of their hands. Repay them with their own retribution.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions. According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.

Psalm 27:4 Cross References

Psalm 23:6

Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me: And in God's house for evermore my dwelling-place shall be.

Psalm 26:6

Mine hands in innocence, O Lord, I'll wash and purify; So to thine holy altar go, and compass it will I:

Psalm 26:8

The habitation of thy house, Lord, I have loved well; Yea, in that place I do delight where doth thine honour dwell.

Psalm 27:8

When thou didst say, Seek ye my face, then unto thee reply Thus did my heart, Above all things thy face, Lord, seek will I.

Psalm 50:2

From out of Sion hill, which of excellency And beauty the perfection is, God shined gloriously.

Psalm 65:4

Bless'd is the man whom thou dost chuse, and mak'st approach to thee, That he within thy courts, O Lord, may still a dweller be: We surely shall be satisfy'd with thy abundant grace, And with the goodness of thy house, ev'n of thy holy place.

Psalm 84:10

For in thy courts one day excels a thousand; rather in My God's house will I keep a door, than dwell in tents of sin.

Psalm 84:4

Bless'd are they in thy house that dwell, they ever give thee praise.

Psalm 90:17

And let the beauty of the Lord our God be us upon: Our handy-works establish thou, establish them each one.