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Psalm 122:2

Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem!

1A Song of Ascents. By David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to the LORD’s house!”
2Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem!
3Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together,
4where the tribes go up, even the LORD’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the LORD’s name.
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Notice

Feet standing inside Jerusalem’s gates mark the glad moment when going to worship becomes arrival, shared with others who have come to thank YHWH.

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Where else Scripture says this

5 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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2 Chronicles 6:6but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’Jerusalem is the place of arrival in the psalm and the city God names as his choice in Chronicles.
Psalm 100:4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.Gates mark entry in both psalms, and thanksgiving accompanies the gathering described in their words and context.
Psalm 84:7They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.Both passages describe arrival: standing within Jerusalem’s gates here, and appearing before God in Zion in Psalm 84.
Psalm 87:1–3A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.Both verses attend to a place: feet stand within Jerusalem’s gates, while Psalm 87 describes God’s foundation in holy mountains.
Exodus 20:24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place …The shared thread is a place associated with God’s name: Jerusalem in the psalm’s context, designated places in Exodus.
Where this verse fits

Praise and worship. gratitude.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Arrange to attend worship with a friend

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Encouragement

Standing within the gates is worth a line of its own. The song lingers over arrival in the city where Israel gathers to thank YHWH.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).