A Song of Ascents. Of David.

¹I WAS glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of the Lord! [Isa. 2:3; Zech. 8:21.]

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

³Jerusalem, which is built as a city that is compacted together–

⁴To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed and as a testimony 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.

⁶Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May they prosper who love you [the Holy City]!

⁷May peace be within your walls and prosperity within your palaces!

⁸For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now say, Peace be within you!

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