1 I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of Jehovah.
2 Our feet are standing inside thy gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together,
4 where the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah, for an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Jehovah.
5 For there thrones are set for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper who love thee.
7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brothers and companions' sakes I will now say, Peace be within thee.
9 For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.
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Today's Verse
if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
Verse Of The DayIts plea to 'pray for the peace of Jerusalem' recalls the longing expressed in Psalms 84:10, and this short cluster of ascent psalms continues next in Psalms 123.
