The LORD is in his holy temple; he has his throne in heaven. He watches people everywhere and knows what they are doing.

Our God is in heaven; he does whatever he wishes.

The LORD has chosen Zion; he wants to make it his home:

"This is where I will live forever; this is where I want to rule.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on his throne, high and exalted, and his robe filled the whole Temple.

The LORD says, "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house, then, could you build for me, what kind of place for me to live in?

Listen! That loud noise in the city, that sound in the Temple, is the sound of the LORD punishing his enemies!

I thought I had been banished from your presence and would never see your holy Temple again.

When I felt my life slipping away, then, O LORD, I prayed to you, and in your holy Temple you heard me.

He is the one who holds the whole building together and makes it grow into a sacred temple dedicated to the Lord.

In union with him you too are being built together with all the others into a place where God lives through his Spirit.

"Stop fighting," he says, "and know that I am God, supreme among the nations, supreme over the world."

You made your judgment known from heaven; the world was afraid and kept silent,

when you rose up to pronounce judgment, to save all the oppressed on earth.

The day is near when the LORD will sit in judgment; so be silent in his presence. The LORD is preparing to sacrifice his people and has invited enemies to plunder Judah.

Be silent, everyone, in the presence of the LORD, for he is coming from his holy dwelling place.