[A Psalm of David.] LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
Psalm 61:4 - King James 2000 I will abide in your tabernacle forever: I will trust in the shelter of your wings. Selah. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will dwell in Your tabernacle forever; let me find refuge and trust in the shelter of Your wings. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! American Standard Version (1901) I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever: I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings. [Selah Common English Bible Please let me live in your tent forever! Please let me take refuge in the shelter of your wings! Selah Catholic Public Domain Version How is it that you rush against a man? Every one of you puts to death, as if you were pulling down a ruined wall, leaning over and falling apart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence. |
[A Psalm of David.] LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
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.
[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave.] Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities have passed.
He shall abide before God forever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
[A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.] LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you trust: his truth shall be your shield and buckler.
Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runs into it, and is safe.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
That by two immutable things, in that it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
He that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
The LORD recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to trust.