Psalms 20:2

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

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

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

Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.

David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.

But David had brought God’s ark up from Kiriath Jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

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

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;” the Most High himself will establish her.

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

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

These are they whom David set over the service of song in Yahweh’s house, after the ark came to rest there.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

His foundation is in the holy mountains.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

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

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

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

“ ‘ “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,

After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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.

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.

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

‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.

David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

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.

As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you.

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

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

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.

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.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

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

until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

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

Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

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.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

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.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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

Of this measure you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a width of ten thousand. In it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

“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.

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.

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

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.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

You shall make two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the far side.

This is for Judah. He said, “Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah. Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself. You shall be a help against his adversaries.”

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.

They brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

Now therefore command that cedar trees be cut for me out of Lebanon. My servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say. For you know that there is nobody among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

He built twenty cubits on the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built them for it within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

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

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

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

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.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.