One thing I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

Only -- goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling is in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.

O the happiness of him whom Thou choosest, And drawest near, he inhabiteth Thy courts, We are satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, Thy holy temple.

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour.

O the happiness of those inhabiting Thy house, Yet do they praise Thee. Selah.

For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.

And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

and voweth a vow, and saith, 'Jehovah of Hosts, if Thou dost certainly look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and hast remembered me, and dost not forget Thy handmaid, and hast given to Thy handmaid seed of men -- then I have given him to Jehovah all days of his life, and a razor doth not go up upon his head.'

And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, 'For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'

And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit -- to inquire, --

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous -- and saved is He, Afflicted -- and riding on an ass, And on a colt -- a son of she-asses.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint,

because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.

but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'

and he asketh for him at Jehovah, and provision hath given to him, and the sword of Goliath the Philistine hath given to him.

and David asketh at Jehovah, saying, 'I pursue after this troop -- do I overtake it?' And He saith to him, 'Pursue, for thou dost certainly overtake, and dost certainly deliver.'

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Summary

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Beauty

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Seek

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'
And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;
and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint,
and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

Dwell

Only -- goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling is in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!
I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.
O the happiness of him whom Thou choosest, And drawest near, he inhabiteth Thy courts, We are satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, Thy holy temple.
O the happiness of those inhabiting Thy house, Yet do they praise Thee. Selah.
and voweth a vow, and saith, 'Jehovah of Hosts, if Thou dost certainly look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and hast remembered me, and dost not forget Thy handmaid, and hast given to Thy handmaid seed of men -- then I have given him to Jehovah all days of his life, and a razor doth not go up upon his head.'
and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,
And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

Behold

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour.
And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!
Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous -- and saved is He, Afflicted -- and riding on an ass, And on a colt -- a son of she-asses.
and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Beauty

So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour.

General references

And Hannah riseth after eating in Shiloh, and after drinking, and Eli the priest is sitting on the throne by the side-post of the temple of Jehovah.
O the happiness of thy men, and the happiness of thy servants -- these -- who are standing before thee continually, and hearing thy wisdom.
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