<Psalms 122

[1] I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord !”

[2] Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!

[3] Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together,

[4] to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

[5] There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.

[6] Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!

[7] “Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”

[8] For my brothers and companions’ sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”

[9] For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.