Psalms 122
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A Song of the Ascents. Of David. I was glad at the saying to me, “Let us go [to] the house of YHWH.”
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Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!
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Jerusalem is built up as a city joined to itself together;
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there the tribes go up, the tribes of YAH, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of YHWH.
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For there sit the thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
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Ask for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper, those loving you!
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May there be peace within your wall, prosperity within your citadels!”
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For the sake of my brothers and my companions let me now say: “Peace [be] within you!”
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For the sake of the house of YHWH our God I will seek good for you.
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