Psalm 122

¹⁰For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

²And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

³And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in His ways!

¹A song of ascents. Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who serve by night in the house of the Lord!

⁴Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and bless His name.

⁷They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion.

⁶But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

²⁴You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

¹A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A song. He has founded His city on the holy mountains.

²The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

⁹So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

²⁰built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

²¹In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

⁶So we rebuilt the wall until all of it was joined together up to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.

⁴There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

⁵one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

²The Lord builds up Jerusalem; He gathers the exiles of Israel.

¹⁰And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

¹¹shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal.

¹⁶Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Lord your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed.

¹³I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—

¹⁴the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

¹⁷Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God.

²³Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

²⁴For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.

¹Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.

²Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

¹³For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

⁸If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the Lord your God will choose.

⁸Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the Lord and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.

¹⁸Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and Pelethites; and David’s sons were priestly leaders.

¹⁸When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

²²Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, intending to make him king.

¹⁸In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem.

³I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

⁷Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

⁶May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

⁷Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”

⁹He crouches, he lies down like a lion, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”

⁵⁰You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the Lord from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”

²⁷Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.

¹³Then all your sons will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their prosperity.

¹⁸Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.

³God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.

¹³consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

⁷Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.

³As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

⁶³I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.

⁶and say to him, ‘Long life to you, and peace to you and to your house and to all that belongs to you.

⁴These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

²then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.

³Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

¹³Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

¹⁴But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

¹⁰But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.

¹⁰For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹⁴Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.

¹⁷His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

⁸O Lord, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.