⁹ For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

¹⁰ When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

¹⁷ His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

¹³ You will arise and have mercy on Zion; For it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

¹⁴ For your servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity on her dust.

¹⁰ 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.

¹ > How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Hosts!

² My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

⁹ For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

⁸ Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, The place where your glory dwells.

³ For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

¹⁴ Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don't wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the observances of it.

³ In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

⁵ If I forget you, Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget its skill.

⁶ Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you; If I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.