¹⁷ The beams of our houses `are' cedars, Our rafters `are' firs, I `am' a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!

⁹ And he buildeth the house, and completeth it, and covereth the house `with' beams and rows of cedars.

¹⁰ for he was looking for the city having the foundations, whose artificer and constructor `is' God.

¹⁵ and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth `thee' to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

¹⁶ and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

³ Over-against the twenty `cubits' that are to the inner court, and over-against the pavement that `is' to the outer court, `is' gallery over-against gallery, in the three `storeys'.

¹⁶ the thresholds, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about them three, over-against the threshold, a ceiling of wood all round about, and the ground unto the windows and the covered windows,

⁹ If she is a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a door, We fashion by her board-work of cedar.

⁵ Thy head upon thee as Carmel, And the locks of thy head as purple, The king is bound with the flowings!

¹² The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.

⁸ and send to me cedar-trees, firs, and algums from Lebanon, for I have known that thy servants know to cut down trees of Lebanon, and lo, my servants `are' with thy servants,

⁹ even to prepare for me trees in abundance, for the house that I am building `is' great and wonderful.

⁴ to whom coming -- a living stone -- by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

⁵ and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.