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A Davidic Song of Ascents

Up to Jerusalem

122 I rejoiced when they kept on asking me,
    “Let us go to the Lord’s Temple.”
Our feet are standing
    inside your gates, Jerusalem.
Jerusalem stands built up,
    a city knitted together.
To it the tribes ascend—
    the tribes of the Lord
as decreed to Israel,
    to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
For thrones are established there for judgment,
    thrones of the house of David.

Pray for peace for Jerusalem:
    “May those who love you be at peace![a]
May peace be within your ramparts,
    and[b] prosperity[c] within your fortresses.”

For the sake of my relatives and friends
    I will now say, “May there be peace within you.”
For the sake of the Temple of the Lord our God,
    I will seek your welfare.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 122:6 Or you prosper
  2. Psalm 122:7 So LXX Syr DSS 11QPsa; the Heb. lacks and
  3. Psalm 122:7 Or peacefulness; LXX reads abundance

Psalm 122

A song of ascents. Of David.

I rejoiced with those who said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
Our feet are standing
    in your gates, Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is built like a city
    that is closely compacted together.
That is where the tribes go up—
    the tribes of the Lord
to praise the name of the Lord
    according to the statute given to Israel.
There stand the thrones for judgment,
    the thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
    “May those who love(A) you be secure.
May there be peace(B) within your walls
    and security within your citadels.(C)
For the sake of my family and friends,
    I will say, “Peace be within you.”
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
    I will seek your prosperity.(D)