Psalms 78:69
And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
In Context
68And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved,
70And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock,
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:8He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause [them] to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah [are] the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.
1 Kings 9:8as to this house, [that] is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
1 Chronicles 29:19and to Solomon my son give a perfect heart, to keep Thy commands, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do the whole, even to build the palace [for] which I have prepared.'
2 Chronicles 3:4As to the porch that [is] on the front, the length [is] by the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty, and he overlayeth it within with pure gold.
Psalms 87:1By sons of Korah. — A Psalm, a song. His foundation [is] in holy mountains.
Psalms 104:5He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →