Psalms 135:21

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

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.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

There is no one like you, Yahweh. You are great, and your name is great in might.

“It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘Yahweh is there.’

But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.

Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?

You shall put both male and female outside of the camp so that they don’t defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”

send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

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

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’ ”

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

“Isn’t Yahweh your God with you? Hasn’t he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.

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,

Our help is in Yahweh’s name, who made heaven and earth.

May Yahweh bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.

For I know that Yahweh is great, that our Lord is above all gods.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and asked him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a country far from me, even from Babylon.”

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

I will not execute the fierceness of my anger. I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One among you; and I will not come in wrath.

Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

I will set my tent among you, and my soul won’t abhor you.

‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.

When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,

and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.

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

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.

Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

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

Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

Arise, Yahweh, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?

“ ‘ “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries will be mine, and we will possess it;’ whereas Yahweh was there:

“By the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the offering which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in width, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the middle of it.

Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”

You will know that I am among Israel, and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

“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 I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who has been living in it.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

Then the princes of the fathers’ households, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly;

But I have built you a house and home, a place for you to dwell in forever.”

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

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

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

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.

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

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

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

until I find out a place for Yahweh, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

“This is my resting place forever. I will live here, for I have desired it.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.