Psalm 122 - International Standard Version (ISV)

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.”
2 Our feet are standing
inside your gates, Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem stands built up,
a city knitted together.
4 To it the tribes ascend—
the tribes of the Lord
as decreed to Israel,
to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
5 For thrones are established there for judgment,
thrones of the house of David.

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

8 For the sake of my relatives and friends
I will now say, “May there be peace within you.”
9 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