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Psalm 122:7

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

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.”
9For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.
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Walls and palaces mark the reach of this prayer: concern for Jerusalem extends across the city's shared life and into its seats of power.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.Peace is the shared concern: the psalm asks for it within Jerusalem, and Jesus gives his peace to his hearers.
Isaiah 54:13All your children will be taught by the LORD, and your children’s peace will be great.Both passages speak of peace for a community, with Isaiah naming the children and the psalm naming the city's walls and palaces.
1 Samuel 25:6Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!Both pronounce a wish for peace that extends beyond one person to the places and households around them.
Psalm 48:13Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.Both name palaces within a fortified city, one praying for prosperity there and the other urging attention to them.
James 3:18Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.Peace is their shared concern: Psalm 122 asks for it, while James describes righteousness sown in peace by peacemakers.
Psalm 48:3God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.Both name a city's fortified places, with Psalm 122 seeking peace and Psalm 48 naming God as a refuge.
Revelation 21:12having a great and high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the …Walls connect these passages: the psalm asks for peace within them, while Revelation describes a wall with gates and angels.
Isaiah 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and …Peace and David's throne connect Isaiah's promise with the prayer for Jerusalem, whose surrounding verses name the thrones of David's house.
1 Chronicles 12:18Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and …Both voice a wish for peace, with Amasai addressing David and his helpers and the psalm addressing Jerusalem.
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Encouragement

The good of a whole city belongs in prayer to God. Here, the request reaches within Jerusalem's walls, to the places where people live and rulers dwell.

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