and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.
One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after:\par\tab That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life,\par\tab To behold the beauty of Jehovah,\par\tab And to inquire in his temple.
unto which {\i promise} our twelve tribes, earnestly serving {\i God} night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!
Therefore are they before the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.
He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
And they said unto him, The disciples of John fast often, and make supplications; likewise also the {\i disciples} of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.\par\tab I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,\par\tab Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the mirrors of the ministering women that ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.