<p class="poetry">For you are the one who givesp> <p class="poetry">and sustains life.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">when the <sc>Lordsc> rebuilds Zion,p> <p class="poetry">and reveals his splendor,p>

then whoever owns the house<n id="1" /> must come and declare to the priest, &#8216;Something like an infection is visible to me in the house.&#8217;

the <sc>Lordsc> appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">That night God appeared<n id="1" /> to Solomon and said to him, &#8220;Tell me<n id="2" /> what I should give you.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">They say, &#8220;Let him hurry, let him act quickly,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so we can see;p> <p class="poetry">let the plan of the Holy One of Israel<n id="2" /> take shape<n id="3" /> and come to pass,p> <p class="poetry">then we will know it!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">In a far-off land the <sc>Lordsc> will manifest himself to them.p> <p class="poetry">He will say to them, &#8216;I have loved you with an everlasting love.p> <p class="poetry">That is why I have continued to be faithful to you.<n id="1" />p>

Jacob said to Joseph, &#8220;The sovereign God<n id="1" /> appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Moses answered again,<n id="2" /> &#8220;And if<n id="3" /> they do not believe me or pay attention to me,<n id="4" /> but say, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has not appeared to you&#8217;?&#8221;

&#8220;that they may believe that the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">As Aaron spoke<n id="1" /> to the whole community of the Israelites and they looked toward the desert, there the glory of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> appeared<n id="3" /> in the cloud,

and an ox and a ram for peace offerings to sacrifice before the <sc>Lordsc>, and a grain offering mixed with olive oil, for today the <sc>Lordsc> is going to appear<n id="1" /> to you.&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">However, the whole community threatened to stone them.<n id="1" /> But<n id="2" /> the glory<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> appeared to all the Israelites at the tent<n id="4" /> of meeting.p>

The woman ran at once and told her husband,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come quickly,<n id="2" /> the man who visited<n id="3" /> me the other day has appeared to me!&#8221;

One night in Gibeon the <sc>Lordsc> appeared<n id="1" /> to Solomon in a dream. God said, &#8220;Tell<n id="2" /> me what I should give you.&#8221;

The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let us rise early to go to the vineyards,p> <p class="poetry">to see if the vines have budded,p> <p class="poetry">to see if their blossoms have opened,p> <p class="poetry">if the pomegranates are in bloom &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">there I will give you my love.p>

<p class="poetry">When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;These people have denied what the <sc>Lordsc> says.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They have said, &#8216;That is not so!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">No harm will come to us.p> <p class="poetry">We will not experience war and famine.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">As I watched, I saw<n id="1" /> on the platform<n id="2" /> above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.