Psalm 122 - Modern English Version

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

¹ I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the Lord.”

² Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!

³ Jerusalem is built as a city that is firmly joined 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 For there were set thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.

⁷ Peace be within your walls and prosperity within your palaces.”

⁸ For the sake of my brothers and companions, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

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