He abandoned the sanctuary at Shiloh, the tent where he lived among men.

It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the Lord.

I will be a permanent guest in your home; I will find shelter in the protection of your wings. (Selah)

May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

No harm will overtake you; no illness will come near your home.

A psalm of David. Lord, who may be a guest in your home? Who may live on your holy hill?

Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun.

He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly. The Lord’s right hand conquers,

How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar.

He said, “I will not enter my own home, or get into my bed.

Now I will triumph over my enemies who surround me! I will offer sacrifices in his dwelling place and shout for joy! I will sing praises to the Lord!

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.