<p class="poetry">Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me;p> <p class="poetry">drunkards mock me in their songs.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> loves the gates of Zionp> <p class="poetry">more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.p>

<p class="poetry">They lost their appetite for all food,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and they drew near the gates of death.p>

<p class="poetry">Open for me the gates of the just king&#8217;s temple!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will enter through them and give thanks to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">For he makes the bars of your gates strong.p> <p class="poetry">He blesses your children<n id="1" /> within you.p>

<p class="poetry">at the head of the noisy<n id="1" /> streets she calls,p> <p class="poetry">in the entrances of the gates in the city<n id="2" /> she utters her words:<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">beside the gates opening into<n id="1" /> the city,p> <p class="poetry">at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Those who are evil will bow<n id="1" /> before those who are good,p> <p class="poetry">and the wicked will bow<n id="2" /> at the gates<n id="3" /> of the righteous.p>

<p class="poetry">Wisdom is unattainable<n id="1" /> for a fool;p> <p class="poetry">in court<n id="2" /> he does not open his mouth.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Her husband is well-known<n id="1" /> in the city gate<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">when he sits with the elders<n id="3" /> of the land.p>

<p class="poetry">Give<n id="1" /> her credit for what she has accomplished,<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">and let her works praise her<n id="3" /> in the city gates.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Open the gates so a righteous nation can enter &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">one that remains trustworthy.p>

<p class="poetry">He will be left unburied just like a dead donkey.p> <p class="poetry">His body will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Then he measured the porch of the gate facing inward as 10½ feet.

<p class="bodytext">Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it; it had the same dimensions as the others &#8211;

<p class="bodytext">There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate;<n id="1" /> there they washed the burnt offering.

When the prince enters, he will come by way of the porch of the gate and will go out the same way.p>

I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons<n id="1" /> and the Dung Gate,<n id="2" /> inspecting<n id="3" /> the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

<p class="bodytext">On the outside of the inner gate were chambers for the singers of the inner court, one<n id="1" /> at the side of the north gate facing south, and the other at the side of the south<n id="2" /> gate facing north.

All the land will change and become like the Arabah<n id="1" /> from Geba to Rimmon,<n id="2" /> south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised up and will stay in its own place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate<n id="3" /> and on to the Corner Gate,<n id="4" /> and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.<n id="5" />