Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] profane My sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

And David the king said to all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom the Lord has chosen, [is] young and tender, and the work [is] great; for [it is] not for man, but for the Lord God.

I have prepared according to all [my] might for the house of my God, gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, onyx stones, and costly and variegated stones for setting, and every precious stone, and much Parian [marble].

to prepare timber for me in abundance; for the house which I am building [must be] great and glorious.

And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared to his father David, in the place which David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And thus Solomon began to build the house of God: the length in cubits-even the first measurement from end to end, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

And he lined the great house with cedar wood, and gilded it with pure gold, and carved upon it palm trees and chains.

And he gilded the house, and its [inner] walls, and the doorposts, and the roofs, and the doors with gold; and he carved cherubim on the walls.

And the weight of the nails, [even] the weight of each was fifty shekels of gold; and he gilded the upper chamber with gold.

And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits in length; and one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house. And the other wing of five cubits touched the wing of the other cherub.

And the wings of these cherubim expanded were of the length of twenty cubits; and they stood upon their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

Also he made in front of the house two pillars, in height thirty-five cubits, and their chapters of five cubits.

And he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left. And he called the name of the one on the right hand 'Stability,' and the name of the one on the left 'Strength.'

But many of the priests and the Levites, and the elder men, heads of families, who had seen the former house on its foundation, and [who saw] this house with their eyes, wept with a loud voice; but the multitude shouted with joy to raise a song.

The city of the great King is well planted [on] the mountains of Zion, with the joy of the whole earth, [on] the sides of the north.

Out of Zion [comes] the excellence of His beauty.

The Lord loves the gates of Zion, more than all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Glorious things have been spoken of you, O city of God. Pause.

The house, our sanctuary, and the glory which our fathers blessed, has been burned with fire; and all our glorious things have gone to ruin.

[ 2:4] Who is [there] of you that saw this house in her former glory? And how do you now look upon it, as it were nothing before your eyes?

Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord; surely, because you have defiled My holy things with all your abominations, I also will reject you; My eye shall not spare, and I will have no mercy.

And He brought me to the porch of the court.

And He said to me, Go in, and behold the iniquities which they practice here.

And he built an altar in the house of the Lord, whereas [God] had said, In Jerusalem I will place My name.

And he set up the graven image of the grove in the house of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I even place My name forever.

And he burned the horses which the king of Judah had given to the sun in the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the treasury of Nathan the king's eunuch, in the suburbs; and he burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king pull down and forcibly remove from there, and cast their dust into the Brook of Kidron.

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord said, In Jerusalem shall be My name forever.

He also passed his children through the fire in the valley of the Son of Hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorceries, and appointed those who had divining spirits, and enchanters, and wrought abundant wickedness before the Lord, to provoke Him.

And all the great men of Judah, and the priests, and the people of the land transgressed abundantly in the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which [was] in Jerusalem.

For the children of Judah have done evil before Me, says the Lord; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

And I will turn away My face from them, and they shall defile My secret place, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.

And He said to them, Defile the house, and go out and fill the ways with dead bodies, and strike.

Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I [will] profane My sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are concerned; and your sons and your daughters, whom you have left, shall fall by the sword.

Therefore I also will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things, for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, [concerning] whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.

ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in His wrath the daughter of Zion! He has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered His footstool.

ZAIN. The Lord has rejected His altar, He has cast off His sanctuary, He has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.