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For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

…when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

…if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—

A Psalm of David. O LORD, who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?

…their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah

May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.

He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.

He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

…the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

…no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.

They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,

The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

…in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

“Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.

Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her; they will pitch their tents all around her, each tending his own portion:

My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.

Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’

But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.

Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”

They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’

He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.

Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.

He will pitch his royal tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain, but he will meet his end with no one to help him.

For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.

But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.

I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.

The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.