Exodus 38:9

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

For Yahweh is great, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

with three courses of great stones and a course of new timber. Let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!

Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!

Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

you who stand in Yahweh’s house, in the courts of our God’s house.

With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into Yahweh’s house; and the priests who kept the threshold put all the money that was brought into Yahweh’s house into it.

He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.

Furthermore he made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?

For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.

I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

in the courts of Yahweh’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence.

He also made posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, around the gate.

“I saw in the visions of my head on my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the sky.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants.” ’

Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting was finished. The children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so they did.

You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.

He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

Moreover Solomon made the middle of the court that was before Yahweh’s house holy; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

Who shouldn’t fear you, King of the nations? For it belongs to you. Because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is no one like you.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.