They would spend the night in their posts all around God&#8217;s sanctuary,<n id="1" /> for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins<n id="1" /> around them,

The singers<n id="1" /> were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites

and from Beth Gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built settlements for themselves around Jerusalem.

<p class="poetry">His troops<n id="1" /> advance together;p> <p class="poetry">they throw up<n id="2" /> a siege ramp against me,p> <p class="poetry">and they camp around my tent.p>

<p class="poetry">I am not afraid<n id="1" /> of the multitude of people<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">who attack me from all directions.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He shrouded himself in darkness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in thick rain clouds.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Our God approaches and is not silent;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">consuming fire goes ahead of himp> <p class="poetry">and all around him a storm rages.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Make vows to the <sc>Lordsc> your God and repay them!p> <p class="poetry">Let all those who surround him<n id="1" /> bring tribute to the awesome one!p>

<p class="poetry">a God who is honored<n id="1" /> in the great angelic assembly,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and more awesome than<n id="3" /> all who surround him?p>

<p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, sovereign God!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Who is strong like you, O <sc>Lordsc>?p> <p class="poetry">Your faithfulness surrounds you.p>

<p class="poetry">Your wife will be like a fruitful vine<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in the inner rooms of your house;p> <p class="poetry">your children<n id="2" /> will be like olive branches,p> <p class="poetry">as they sit all around your table.p>

<p class="poetry">Look! It is Solomon&#8217;s portable couch!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">It is surrounded by sixty warriors,p> <p class="poetry">some of Israel&#8217;s mightiest warriors.p>

<p class="poetry">They will surround Jerusalem<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like men guarding a field<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because they have rebelled against me,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">Kings will come against it with their armies.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will encamp in siege all around it.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not go out into the countryside.p> <p class="poetry">Do not travel on the roads.p> <p class="poetry">For the enemy is there with sword in hand.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They are spreading terror everywhere.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But I will punish you as your deeds deserve,&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;I will set fire to your palace;p> <p class="poetry">it will burn up everything around it.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You will stumble and fall, you proud city;p> <p class="poetry">no one will help you get up.p> <p class="poetry">I will set fire to your towns;p> <p class="poetry">it will burn up everything that surrounds you.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

There were ninety-six pomegranate-shaped ornaments on the sides; in all there were one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments over the latticework that went around it.p>

Their rims were high and awesome,<n id="1" /> and the rims of all four wheels were full of eyes all around.p>