And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing. ¹ 

Solomon had 4,000 ¹  stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

he makes the Bear, ¹  Orion, ²  and the Pleiades, ³  and the constellations of the southern sky; ⁴ 

I will be secure, ¹  for I seek your precepts.

The city will have open spaces: On the north there will be 437½ feet, ¹  on the south 437½ feet, on the east 437½ feet, and on the west 437½ feet.

All of the entrances ¹  were rectangular in shape ²  and they were arranged in sets of three. ³ 

In my distress ¹  I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place. ² 

who serve ¹  in the Lord’s temple, in the courts of the temple of our God.

at one time outside, at another ¹  in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

The Lord did as Moses asked ¹  – the ²  frogs died out of the houses, the villages, and the fields.

He engraved ornamental cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of the supports and frames wherever there was room, ¹  with wreaths ²  all around.

Now the city was spread out ¹  and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. ²  At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

In the four corners of the court were small ¹  courts, 70 feet ²  in length and 52½ feet ³  in width; the four were all the same size.

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac ¹  named it ²  Rehoboth, ³  saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”

He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.

Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others ¹  will stand in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. ¹  Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the window, peering through the lattice.

He will wind you up tightly into a ball and throw you into a wide, open land. ¹  There you will die, and there with you will be your impressive chariots, ²  which bring disgrace to the house of your master. ³ 

Instead the Lord will rule there as our mighty king. ¹  Rivers and wide streams will flow through it; ²  no war galley will enter; ³  no large ships will sail through. ⁴