Jerusalem is a city designed to accommodate an assembly.

Praise him with the tambourine and with dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and the flute!

I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.

May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

Let them praise his name with dancing! Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!

Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

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.