So Abram moved his tent and went to live beside the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

But the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped Him.

God said to Jacob, "Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone."

LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

[ For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.] As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God.

I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?

[For the choir director: on the Gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah.] How lovely is Your dwelling place, LORD of Hosts.

I long and yearn for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

Better a day in Your courts than a thousand [anywhere else]. I would rather be at the door of the house of my God than to live in the tents of the wicked.

A son was born to Seth also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the LORD.

[For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. A song.] Praise is rightfully Yours, God, in Zion; vows to You will be fulfilled.

All humanity will come to You, the One who hears prayer.

Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; His faithful love endures forever.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for His faithful love and His wonderful works for the human race.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for His faithful love and His wonderful works for the human race.

Because He has turned His ear to me, I will call [out to Him] as long as I live.

I will offer You a sacrifice of thanksgiving and will worship the LORD.

The LORD is near all who call out to Him, all who call out to Him with integrity.

At that time, when you call, the LORD will answer; when you cry out, He will say: Here I am. If you get rid of the yoke from those around you, the finger-pointing and malicious speaking,

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

For I will then restore pure speech to the peoples so that all of them may call on the name of Yahweh and serve Him with a single purpose.

To God's church at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called as saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord-- theirs and ours.

With every prayer and request, pray at all times in the Spirit, and stay alert in this, with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.