but no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler—

“Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place,

Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth?

Lift up your heads, you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.

Lift up your heads, you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.

Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;

Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.

Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,

Blessed are those who listen to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway.

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city,

As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

when the doors to the street are closed and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds, but all their songs grow faint;

The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my beloved.

If she is a wall, we will build towers of silver on her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by.

“This is what the Lord says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

Behind your doors and your doorposts you have put your pagan symbols. Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; you made a pact with those whose beds you love, and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.

I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah the man of God. It was next to the room of the officials, which was over that of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.

The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers.

He said to me, “Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.

“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’

“As for you, son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the Lord.’