Psalms 33:14
From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.
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ASV
From the place of his habitation he looketh forth Upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
KJV
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Then when he says, "From his prepared dwelling place," he removes the doubt. For some believed that God dwells in the heavens as though in remote parts he would not know human affairs: Job 22: "He walks about the poles of heaven and does not …
From the place of his habitation,.... Which is heaven, that is, the habitation of his holiness, and of his glory, Isa 63:15; he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth; good and bad; and not the nation of Israel only, but the Gentile world, whom in former times he overlooked, but under the Gospel dispensation visits in a way of mercy; by sending his son to die for them, by spreading his Gospel among them, by calling them by his grace, by planting churches in the midst of them, and by continuing his word and ordinances with them.
They, and all they do, are obnoxious to his judgment; for he considers all their works, not only knows them, but weighs them, that he may render to every man according to his works, in the day, in the world, of retribution, in the judgment, and to eternity. All the powers of the creature have a dependence upon him, and are of no account, of no avail at all, without him,
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. Here the sentiment is repeated: it is worth repeating, and it needs repeating, for man is most prone to forget it. As great men sit at their windows and watch the crowd below, so doth the Lord; he gazes intently upon his responsible creatures, and forgets nothing of what he sees.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Isaiah 66:1This 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?
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However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.
But I tell you not to swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne;
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool.
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Psalms 123:1I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
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I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
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1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
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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?