I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”

He will not consider any compensation; he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

Send your grain overseas, for after many days you will get a return.

When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this – animals trampling on my courtyards?

The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.

I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.

In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you,” says your protector, the Lord.

These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.

I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.

You will fall dead in the open field; for I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.

Its length was 175 feet on the north side, and its width 87½ feet.

As he spoke with me, I fell into a trance with my face to the ground. But he touched me and stood me upright.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord’s favor

When the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord.

Three times a year all your males must appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Temporary Shelters; and they must not appear before him empty-handed.