The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, ¹  but he opposes the wicked. ² 

Blessed is the one ¹  who listens to me, watching ²  at my doors day by day, waiting ³  beside my doorway. ⁴ 

The Lord says, “Watch out! ¹  The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh. ² 

There were ninety-six pomegranate-shaped ornaments on the sides; in all there were one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments over the latticework that went around it.

He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front ¹  and back; ²  written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

He measured the width of the entrance of the gateway as 17½ feet, ¹  and the length of the gateway as 22¾ feet. ² 

He measured ¹  the porch ²  at 105 feet ³  high; ⁴  the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.

From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet. ¹ 

Then he brought me to the outer court. I saw ¹  chambers there, and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

He measured the length and width of the gate of the outer court which faces north.

There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.

Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate. He measured the south gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

Its porches faced the outer court, and decorative palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.

Its porches faced the outer court, it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.

Its jambs ¹  faced the outer court, and it had decorative palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.

Then he measured the wall of the temple ¹  as 10½ feet, ²  and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, ³  all around the temple.

Below these chambers was a passage on the east side as one enters from the outer court.

At the beginning ¹  of the wall of the court toward the south, ²  facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers