For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
    I will (A)seek your good.

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10 But when (A)Sanballat the Horonite and (B)Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.

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17 His disciples remembered that it was written, (A)“Zeal for your house will consume me.”

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10 For a day (A)in your courts is better
    than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be (B)a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord

To the choirmaster: according to (A)The Gittith.[a] A Psalm of (B)the Sons of Korah.

84 How (C)lovely is your (D)dwelling place,
    O Lord of hosts!
My soul (E)longs, yes, (F)faints
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
    to (G)the living God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 84:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

For (A)zeal for your house has consumed me,
    and (B)the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

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O Lord, I (A)love the habitation of your house
    and the place where your glory dwells.

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For Mordecai the Jew was (A)second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he (B)sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.

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14 (A)Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.

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Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:

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If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
    (A)let my right hand forget its skill!
Let my (B)tongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
    above my highest joy!

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13 You will (A)arise and have (B)pity on Zion;
    it is the time to favor her;
    (C)the appointed time has come.
14 For your servants hold her (D)stones dear
    and have pity on her dust.

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