<p class="poetry">He abandoned<n id="1" /> the sanctuary at Shiloh,p> <p class="poetry">the tent where he lived among men.p>

<p class="poetry">It includes<n id="1" /> the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,p> <p class="poetry">Moab and the Hagrites,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They grumbled in their tents;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they did not obey<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">I will be a permanent guest in your home;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will find shelter in the protection of your wings.<n id="2" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">May their camp become desolate,p> <p class="poetry">their tents uninhabited!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,p> <p class="poetry">the firstfruits of their reproductive power<n id="1" /> in the tents of Ham.p>

<p class="poetry">He rejected the tent of Joseph;p> <p class="poetry">he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.p>

<p class="poetry">No harm will overtake<n id="1" /> you;p> <p class="poetry">no illness<n id="2" /> will come near your home.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry"><sc>Lordsc>, who may be a guest in your home?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who may live on your holy hill?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet its voice<n id="1" /> echoes<n id="2" /> throughout the earth;p> <p class="poetry">its<n id="3" /> words carry<n id="4" /> to the distant horizon.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">In the sky<n id="6" /> he has pitched a tent for the sun.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">He will surely<n id="1" /> give me shelter<n id="2" /> in the day of danger;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he will hide me in his home;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">he will place me<n id="5" /> on an inaccessible rocky summit.<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet<n id="1" /> God will make you a permanent heap of ruins.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">He will scoop you up<n id="3" /> and remove you from your home;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">He drove the nations out from before them;p> <p class="poetry">he assigned them their tribal allotments<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s right hand conquers,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">How miserable I am!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For I have lived temporarily<n id="2" /> in Meshech;p> <p class="poetry">I have resided among the tents of Kedar.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will not enter my own home,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">or get into my bed.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Now I will triumphp> <p class="poetry">over my enemies who surround me!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will offer sacrifices in his dwelling place and shout for joy!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will sing praises to the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">Certainly<n id="1" /> spending just one day in your temple courts is betterp> <p class="poetry">than spending a thousand elsewhere.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I would rather stand at the entrance<n id="3" /> to the temple of my Godp> <p class="poetry">than live<n id="4" /> in the tents of the wicked.p>