Quotes About Presence

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

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

who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God.

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

Surely the righteous will praise Your name; the upright will dwell in Your presence.

Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

Then I was a skilled craftsman at His side, and His delight day by day, rejoicing always in His presence.

There are three things that are stately in their stride, and four that are impressive in their walk:

Do not hasten to leave his presence, and do not persist in a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases.

While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.

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.”