"Therefore my heart is glad, my tongue exults, my very body also shall pitch its tent in hope.

"After these things I will return, And I will rebuild David's fallen tent; And I will build again its ruins, And I will set it up;

Then he called two centurions to him and said: "Get ready by nine o'clock tonight two hundred infantry to march as far as Caesarea, and also seventy troopers and two hundred spearmen."

For I know, if this earthly tent of mine were struck, I have a mansion built by God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For in this tent I am groaning, earnestly longing to be under the cover of my heavenly habitation; if so be that being so covered,

For in this tent of mine I am groaning in deep trouble; not that I wish to be unclothed, but to be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up in life.

Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

nor to be paying attention to myths and interminable genealogies, which tend to promote discussions rather than a stewardship entrusted by God, a stewardship which is in faith.

For a tent was built, the outer one called the Holy Place, in which were the lamp and the table and the loaves of the Presence;

and behind the second veil was the tent called the Holy of Holies.

Such then were the arrangements. Into the outer tent the priests enter continually in the performance of their duties;

but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.

The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.

But when Christ came, a High Priest of good things to come, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is to say, not of this material creation,

So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,

since I know that the time for me to strike tent comes swiftly on, even as our Lord Jesus Christ pointed out to me.

And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, crying. "Behold, God's tent is with men, And he will tent with them, And they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them,