For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

By your loyal love you will lead the people whom you have redeemed; you will guide them by your strength to your holy dwelling place.

But as for me, because of your great faithfulness I will enter your house; I will bow down toward your holy temple as I worship you.

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

Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!

Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live.

Do not reject me! Do not take your Holy Spirit away from me!

Deliver us, O Lord, our God! Gather us from among the nations! Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.

Your chosen cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.

I thought I had been banished from your sight, that I would never again see your holy temple!

Say this prayer: “Deliver us, O God who delivers us! Gather us! Rescue us from the nations! Then we will give thanks to your holy name, and boast about your praiseworthy deeds.”

O Lord our God, all this wealth, which we have collected to build a temple for you to honor your holy name, comes from you; it all belongs to you.

You made known to them your holy Sabbath; you issued commandments, statutes, and law to them through Moses your servant.

A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have exalted your promise above the entire sky.

Look down from heaven and take notice, from your holy, majestic palace! Where are your zeal and power? Do not hold back your tender compassion!

When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the Lord, and my prayer came to your holy temple.

Look down from your holy dwelling place in heaven and bless your people Israel and the land you have given us, just as you promised our ancestors – a land flowing with milk and honey.”

O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.

“Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.