Psalms 122
Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.
1 I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
2 Our feet are standing
Within your gates, O Jerusalem,
3 Jerusalem, that is built
As a city that is firmly joined together;
4 To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.
5 For there the thrones of judgment were set,
The thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who love you [holy city].
7 “May peace be within your walls
And prosperity within your palaces.”
8 For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “May peace be within you.”
9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God [which is Jerusalem],
I will seek your (the city’s) good.