⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.

¹⁰ And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.

¹⁷ And it came to the minds of the disciples that the Writings say, I am on fire with passion for your house.

¹³ You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.

¹⁴ For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.

¹⁰ For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

² The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

⁹ I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

⁸ Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

³ For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.

¹⁴ Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.

³ And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

⁵ If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

⁶ If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.