<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">Trust in the <sc>Lordsc> and do what is right!p> <p class="poetry">Settle in the land and maintain your integrity!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> deserves praise in Zion<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">he who dwells in Jerusalem.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">I will avenge<n id="1" /> their blood which I had not previously acquitted.p> <p class="bodytext">It is the <sc>Lordsc> who dwells in Zion!p>

The <sc>Lordsc> appeared to Isaac and said, &#8220;Do not go down to Egypt;<n id="1" /> settle down in the land that I will point out to you.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Gad he said:p> <p class="poetry">Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad.p> <p class="poetry">Like a lioness he will dwell;p> <p class="poetry">he will tear at an arm &#8211; indeed, a scalp.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is exalted,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">indeed,<n id="2" /> he lives in heaven;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he fills Zion with justice and fairness.p>

<p class="poetry">No resident of Zion<n id="1" /> will say, &#8220;I am ill&#8221;;p> <p class="poetry">the people who live there will have their sin forgiven.p>

Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the <sc>Lordsc> live among the Israelites.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">A fugitive<n id="1" /> came and told Abram the Hebrew.<n id="2" /> Now Abram was living by the oaks<n id="3" /> of Mamre the Amorite, the brother<n id="4" /> of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty<n id="5" /> with Abram.)<n id="6" />

Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the <sc>Lordsc> filled the tabernacle.

You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that<n id="1" /> they will not defile their camps, among which I live.&#8221;

When Balaam lifted up his eyes, he saw Israel camped tribe by tribe;<n id="1" /> and the Spirit of God came upon him.

<t /><p class="poetry">Of Benjamin he said:p> <p class="poetry">The beloved of the <sc>Lordsc> will live safely by him;p> <p class="poetry">he protects him all the time,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> places him on his chest.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Gilead stayed put<n id="1" /> beyond the Jordan River.p> <p class="poetry">As for Dan &#8211; why did he seek temporary employment in the shipyards?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Asher remained<n id="3" /> on the seacoast,p> <p class="poetry">he stayed<n id="4" /> by his harbors.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not forsake your friend and your father&#8217;s friend,p> <p class="poetry">and do not enter your brother&#8217;s house in the day of your disaster;p> <p class="poetry">a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">The inhabitants<n id="1" /> of Samaria will lament<n id="2" /> over the calf idol<n id="3" /> of Beth Aven.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">Its people will mourn over it;p> <p class="poetry">its idolatrous priests will wail<n id="5" /> over it,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">because its splendor will be taken from them<n id="7" /> into exile.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">You will be convinced<n id="1" /> that I the <sc>Lordsc> am your God,p> <p class="poetry">dwelling on Zion, my holy mountain.p> <p class="poetry">Jerusalem<n id="2" /> will be holy &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">conquering armies<n id="3" /> will no longer pass through it.p>

May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation<n id="1" /> who reaches out<n id="2" /> to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">For this is what the high and exalted one says,p> <p class="poetry">the one who rules<n id="1" /> forever, whose name is holy:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;I dwell in an exalted and holy place,p> <p class="poetry">but also with the discouraged and humiliated,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in order to cheer up the humiliatedp> <p class="poetry">and to encourage the discouraged.<n id="3" />p>