O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house
And the place where Your glory dwells.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
For evil [of every kind] is in their dwelling and in their hearts, in their midst.

A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

May their encampment be desolate;
May no one dwell in their tents.

Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region;
And did not find a way to an inhabited city.

And there He has the hungry dwell,
So that they may establish an inhabited city,

Judah became His sanctuary,
And Israel His dominion.

Until I find a place for the Lord,
A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob (Israel).”

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His dwelling place: