18 “I will gather those who (A)sorrow over the appointed assembly,
Who are among you,
To whom its reproach is a burden.

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(A)My soul thirsts for God, for the (B)living God.
When shall I come and [a]appear before God?
(C)My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
(D)“Where is your God?”

When I remember these things,
(E)I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
(F)I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

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  1. Psalm 42:2 So with MT, Vg.; some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Tg. I see the face of God

24 For (A)I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.

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He has done violence (A)to His [a]tabernacle,
(B)As if it were a garden;
He has destroyed His place of assembly;
The Lord has caused
The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.
In His burning indignation He has (C)spurned the king and the priest.

The Lord has spurned His altar,
He has (D)abandoned His sanctuary;
He has [b]given up the walls of her palaces
Into the hand of the enemy.
(E)They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of a set feast.

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  1. Lamentations 2:6 Lit. booth
  2. Lamentations 2:7 delivered

The roads to Zion mourn
Because no one comes to the [a]set feasts.
All her gates are (A)desolate;
Her priests sigh,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she is in bitterness.

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  1. Lamentations 1:4 appointed

25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be (A)wise in your own [a]opinion, that (B)blindness in part has happened to Israel (C)until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be [b]saved, as it is written:

(D)“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

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  1. Romans 11:25 estimation
  2. Romans 11:26 Or delivered

20 At that time (A)I will bring you back,
Even at the time I gather you;
For I will give you [a]fame and praise
Among all the peoples of the earth,
When I return your captives before your eyes,”
Says the Lord.

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  1. Zephaniah 3:20 Lit. a name

What will you do in the appointed day,
And in the day of the feast of the Lord?

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11 (A)Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel
Shall be gathered together,
And appoint for themselves one head;
And they shall come up out of the land,
For great will be the day of Jezreel!

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13 And (A)I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, [a]in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country.

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  1. Ezekiel 34:13 Or by the streams

In the days of her affliction and roaming,
Jerusalem (A)remembers all her pleasant things
That she had in the days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
With no one to help her,
The adversaries saw her
And mocked at her [a]downfall.

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  1. Lamentations 1:7 Vg. Sabbaths

Behold, I will bring them (A)from the north country,
And (B)gather them from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child
And the one who labors with child, together;
A great throng shall return there.
(C)They shall come with weeping,
And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk (D)by the rivers of waters,
In a straight way in which they shall not stumble;
For I am a Father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My (E)firstborn.

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“But (A)I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

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For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,
And those who (A)plundered us requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How shall we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?
If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget its skill!
If I do not remember you,
Let my (B)tongue cling to the roof of my mouth—
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.

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The Blessedness of Dwelling in the House of God

To the Chief Musician. (A)On[a] an instrument of Gath. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

84 How (B)lovely [b]is Your tabernacle,
O Lord of hosts!
(C)My soul longs, yes, even faints
For the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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  1. Psalm 84:1 Heb. Al Gittith
  2. Psalm 84:1 are Your dwellings

Joy in the Fellowship of God

A Psalm of David (A)when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

63 O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
(B)My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see (C)Your power and Your glory.

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(A)Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!
Let them lead me;
Let them bring me to (B)Your holy hill
And to Your [a]tabernacle.

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  1. Psalm 43:3 dwelling places

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