Psalms 68:24

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.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.

David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

Now let our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God is turned from us, until this matter is resolved.”

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.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with tambourines,

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

and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.

Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.

“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

“After that you will come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is; and it will happen, when you have come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a lute, a tambourine, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they will be prophesying.

David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.

So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;

Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.

Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;

and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.

Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

and said to them, “You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”

Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

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

Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

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

Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

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

Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

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

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power,

His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

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

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.

and tell Tyre, ‘You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, the Lord Yahweh says: “You, Tyre, have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.