Psalm 73:28 {72:28}
Good News Translation
But as for me, how wonderful to be near God, to find protection with the Sovereign LORD and to proclaim all that he has done!

New Revised Standard Version
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, to tell of all your works.

Contemporary English Version
It is good for me to be near you. I choose you as my protector, and I will tell about your wonderful deeds.

New American Bible
As for me, to be near God is my good, to make the Lord GOD my refuge. I shall declare all your works in the gates of daughter Zion.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

but

Psalm 65:4 Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple,

Psalm 84:10 For better is one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

Psalm 116:7 Turn, O my soul, into thy rest: for the Lord hath been bountiful to thee.

Lamentations 3:25,26 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. . . .

Luke 15:17-20 And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger! . . .

Hebrews 10:19-22 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ: . . .

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

that I may

Psalm 66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what great things he hath done for my soul.

Psalm 71:17,24 Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful works. . . .

Psalm 107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.

Psalm 118:17 I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
27For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee. 28But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
Cross References
Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near with a true heart, in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.

James 4:8
Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Psalm 14:6
For the Lord is in the just generation: you have confounded the counsel of the poor man; but the Lord is his hope.

Psalm 40:5
Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.

Psalm 65:4
Blessed is he whom thou hast chosen and taken to thee: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be filled with the good things of thy house; holy is thy temple,

Psalm 71:7
I am become unto many as a wonder, but thou art a strong helper.

Psalm 107:22
And let them sacrifice the sacrifice of praise: and declare his works with joy.

Psalm 118:17
I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.

Zephaniah 3:2
She hath not hearkened to the voice, neither hath she received discipline: she hath not trusted in the Lord, she drew not near to her God.

Psalm 73:27
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