Quotes About Worship

as well as the priests with their trumpets—Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah—

and also Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. Then the choirs sang out under the direction of Jezrahiah.

On that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.

They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers, as David and his son Solomon had prescribed.

For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there were directors for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

So in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah, all Israel contributed the daily portions for the singers and gatekeepers. They also set aside daily portions for the Levites, and the Levites set aside daily portions for the descendants of Aaron.

Then I ordered that the rooms be purified, and I had the articles of the house of God restored to them, along with the grain offerings and frankincense.

I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields.

So I rebuked the officials and asked, “Why has the house of God been neglected?” Then I gathered the Levites and singers together and stationed them at their posts,

Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.

Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?

Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according to Your abundant loving devotion.

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?í

Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.

But no one asks, ëWhere is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

Remember to magnify His work, which men have praised in song.

Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.