Psalms 27:4

I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live ¹  in the Lord’s house ²  all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor ³  of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.

1Sa 1:11; 1Sa 22:10; 1Sa 30:8; 2Sa 21:1; 1Ch 10:13,14; Ps 23:6; Ps 26:6; Ps 26:8; Ps 27:8; Ps 50:2; Ps 63:2; Ps 63:2-5; Ps 65:4; Ps 84:4,10; Ps 90:17; Jer 29:13; Da 9:3; Zec 9:9; Mt 6:33; Mt 7:7,8; Lu 2:37; Lu 10:42; Lu 11:9,10; Lu 13:24; Lu 18:1; 2Co 3:18; 2Co 4:6; Php 3:13; 1Ti 5:5; Heb 11:6

¹ tn Heb “my living.”

² sn The Lord’s house. This probably refers to the tabernacle (if one accepts Davidic authorship) or the temple (see Judg 19:18; 1 Sam 1:7, 24; 2 Sam 12:20; 1 Kgs 7:12, 40, 45, 51).

³ tn Or “beauty.”