Psalm 68:16 {67:17}
Good News Translation
Why from your mighty peaks do you look with scorn on the mountain on which God chose to live? The LORD will live there forever!

New Revised Standard Version
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?

Contemporary English Version
Why is it jealous of Zion, the mountain you chose as your home forever?

New American Bible
You rugged mountains, why look with envy at the mountain where God has chosen to dwell, where the LORD resides forever?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.

Why

Psalm 114:4,6 The mountains skipped like rams, and the hills like the lambs of the flock. . . .

Isaiah 2:2 And in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it.

the hill

Psalm 132:13,14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling. . . .

Deuteronomy 12:5,11 But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it: . . .

1 Kings 9:3 And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be there always.

Hebrews 12:22,23 But you are come to mount Sion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels, . . .

Revelation 21:2,3 And I, John, saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. . . .

Context
God's Enemies Are Scattered
15The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain. 16Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.17The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:17
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thy inheritance, in thy most firm habitation, which thou hast made, O Lord; thy sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

Psalm 74:2
Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.

Psalm 78:54
And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.

Psalm 87:1
For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:

Psalm 87:2
The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Psalm 132:13
For the Lord hath chosen Sion: he hath chosen it for his dwelling.

Psalm 132:14
This is my rest for ever and ever: here will I dwell, for I have chosen it.

Psalm 68:15
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