² Send you help from the sanctuary, Grant you support from Zion,

¹⁷ Until I entered God's sanctuary, And considered their latter end.

³⁴ By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.

³⁵ For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.

³² What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

⁶ Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy One of Israel!"

⁴ I cry to Yahweh with my voice, And he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

⁸ They lived therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name, saying,

⁹ If evil come on us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.

⁴⁴ If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

⁴⁵ then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

¹⁶ He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

¹⁷ They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings before Yahweh.

⁷ Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.