Parallel Chapters How Lovely Are Your Dwellings!
(John 1:14-18) | 1For the director of music. According to gittith. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm. How lovely is your dwelling place, LORD Almighty! | 1How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! | 1For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely are Your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts! | 1To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! | 1For the choir director: on the Gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, LORD of Hosts. |
| 2My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. | 2My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. | 2My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the LORD; My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. | 2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. | 2I long and yearn for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh cry out for the living God. |
| 3Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young-- a place near your altar, LORD Almighty, my King and my God. | 3Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God. | 3The bird also has found a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even Your altars, O LORD of hosts, My King and my God. | 3Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God. | 3Even a sparrow finds a home, and a swallow, a nest for herself where she places her young-- near Your altars, LORD of Hosts, my King and my God. |
| 4Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they are ever praising you. | 4Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah | 4How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah. | 4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. | 4How happy are those who reside in Your house, who praise You continually. Selah |
| 5Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. | 5Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion. | 5How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion! | 5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. | 5Happy are the people whose strength is in You, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. |
| 6As they pass through the Valley of Baka, they make it a place of springs; the autumn rains also cover it with pools. | 6As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools. | 6Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings. | 6Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. | 6As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a source of springwater; even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings. |
| 7They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion. | 7They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion. | 7They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion. | 7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. | 7They go from strength to strength; each appears before God in Zion. |
| 8Hear my prayer, LORD God Almighty; listen to me, God of Jacob. | 8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah | 8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah. | 8O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. | 8 LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; listen, God of Jacob. Selah |
| 9Look on our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one. | 9Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed! | 9Behold our shield, O God, And look upon the face of Your anointed. | 9Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. | 9Consider our shield, God; look on the face of Your anointed one. |
| 10Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. | 10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. | 10For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. | 10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. | 10Better a day in Your courts than a thousand anywhere else. I would rather be at the door of the house of my God than to live in the tents of wicked people. |
| 11For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless. | 11For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. | 11For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. | 11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. | 11For the LORD God is a sun and shield. The LORD gives grace and glory; He does not withhold the good from those who live with integrity. |
| 12LORD Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you. | 12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you! | 12O LORD of hosts, How blessed is the man who trusts in You! | 12O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. | 12Happy is the person who trusts in You, LORD of Hosts! |
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