Verses for a palace

For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.