Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem.

¹I was glad when they said to me,

“Let us go to the house of the Lord .” [Is 2:3; Zech 8:21]

²Our feet are standing

Within your gates, O Jerusalem,

³Jerusalem, that is built

As a city that is firmly joined together;

⁴To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord ,

[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,

To give thanks to the name of the Lord .

⁵For there the thrones of judgment were set,

The thrones of the house of David.

⁶¶Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:

“May they prosper who love you [holy city].

⁷“May peace be within your walls

And prosperity within your palaces.”

⁸For the sake of my brothers and my friends,

I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

⁹For the sake of the house of the Lord our God [which is Jerusalem],

I will seek your (the city’s) good.