Psalms 122:9
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For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
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But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.
For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”