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Psalm 122
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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A Song of degrees of David.
1I was
2Our
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5For there are
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8For my
9Because of the
Footnotes
- a 122:5 are…: Heb. do sit
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
A song of ascents. Of David.
1I was glad when they said to me,“Let us go to the house of the LORD.” 2Our feet are standing in your gates,O Jerusalem.
3Jerusalem is built upas a city united together, 4where the tribes go up,the tribes of the LORD,as a testimony for Israel,to give thanks to the name of the LORD. 5For there the thrones of judgment stand,the thrones of the house of David.
6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:“May those who love you prosper.footnote a 7May there be peace within your walls,and prosperityfootnote binside your fortresses.” 8For the sake of my brothers and friends,I will say, “Peace be within you.” 9For the sake of the house of the LORD our God,I will seek your prosperity.
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