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Psalm 68:16

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16Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,

At the mountain which God has aprized for His habitation?

Surely bYahweh will dwell there forever.

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Cross references

  1. aDeut 12:5; Ps 87:1, 2; 132:13
  2. bPs 132:14

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain,

at the mount that God desired for his abode,

yes, where the Lord will dwell forever?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain,

at the mountain where God chooses to reign,

where the Lord himself will dwell forever?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,

at the mountain God desired for his abode?

The Lord will dwell there forever!

NLTNew Living Translation

Why do you look with envy, O rugged mountains,

at Mount Zion, where God has chosen to live,

where the Lord himself will live forever?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains?

This mountain God desires for his dwelling.

Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever.

KJV 1900King James Version

Why leap ye, ye high hills?

This is the hill which God desireth to dwell in;

Yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.