Place

When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.

Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place?

O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.

You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.

Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell.

There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.

Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.

For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.

A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.

…when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

…the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.

…until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool.

Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.

The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.

He who fears the LORD is secure in confidence, and his children shall have a place of refuge.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.

Wisdom is too high for a fool; he does not open his mouth in the meeting place.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, near the dwelling of the righteous; do not destroy his resting place.

Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

Furthermore, I saw under the sun that in the place of judgment there is wickedness, and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness.

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

…even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?

Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.

If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

…a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.

For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.

All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.

For all their tables are covered with vomit; there is not a place without filth.

…to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

…to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”

I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.

Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.

But there the Majestic One, our LORD, will be for us a place of rivers and wide canals, where no galley with oars will row, and no majestic vessel will pass.

The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place.

Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.

Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place.

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.

They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.

Yet the children of your bereavement will say in your hearing, ‘This place is too small for us; make room for us to live here.’

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.

I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.

The glory of Lebanon will come to you—its cypress, elm, and boxwood together—to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.

The glory of Lebanon will come to you—its cypress, elm, and boxwood together—to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.

Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for My people who seek Me.

This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?

Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

…if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

…then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

…therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.

So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.

“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

“You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place.”

For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.

A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

…saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,

…because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.