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Psalm 122:6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
4where the tribes go up, even the LORD’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the LORD’s name.
5For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.
6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
7Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
8For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
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Jerusalem’s peace and the welfare of those who love her are linked here, making a city’s good a concern for personal prayer.
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Psalm 51:18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.Both direct prayer toward Jerusalem’s welfare, asking for peace in one passage and the building of its walls in the other.
Genesis 12:3I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”Both associate goodwill toward another with good received: prosperity for those who love Jerusalem, blessing for those who bless the person addressed.
Jeremiah 29:7Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”Both urge prayer for a city’s peace and link that peace with the welfare of people concerned for it.
Psalm 137:6–7Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you, if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.Jerusalem is the object of love in Psalm 122 and of remembrance and preference above chief joy in Psalm 137.
Numbers 24:9He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”Both associate goodwill with blessing or prosperity, though Numbers also speaks a curse against those who curse.
Jeremiah 51:50You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember the LORD from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”Both turn attention toward Jerusalem, one through prayer for its peace and the other through remembrance from afar.
1 John 3:14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.Both connect love with good, though love for Jerusalem and love for fellow believers have distinct objects and outcomes.
2 Thessalonians 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.Both make peace the subject of prayer, sought for Jerusalem in the psalm and for the letter’s recipients in Thessalonians.
John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.The shared thread is prayer for a community; Jerusalem’s peace and the oneness of Jesus’ followers remain distinct requests.
Ephesians 4:3being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.Peace is a shared concern, expressed through prayer for Jerusalem in the psalm and care for the Spirit’s unity in Ephesians.
Psalm 128:5May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.Both join Jerusalem’s welfare with the good of people connected to it, speaking of peace, prosperity, and blessing.
Nehemiah 2:20Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor …Jerusalem and prosperity appear in both texts, with the psalm urging prayer and Nehemiah expressing confidence in God as his servants build.
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The city named here is where the tribes gather to thank YHWH. Prayer for its peace reaches beyond private concerns to the good of those within its walls.
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