Psalms 122:2

But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

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

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

However Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever. For he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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.

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.

then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to put his name is too far from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of your soul.

You shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he chooses to cause his name to dwell, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your God always.

Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

For now I have chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually.

May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

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.

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

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

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

He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

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

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

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

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.”

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

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

“ ‘ “But when the people of the land come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.

“Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.” ’ ”

For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

“You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side.

Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

Now there was long war between Saul’s house and David’s house. David grew stronger and stronger, but Saul’s house grew weaker and weaker.

King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.

but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.

“If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

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

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

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

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

May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’ ”

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.

nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,