1 I was glad when they said to me,

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

2 Our feet are standing

Within your gates, O Jerusalem,

3 Jerusalem, that is built

As a city that is firmly joined together;

4 To 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.

5 For 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."

8 For the sake of my brothers and my friends,

I will now say, "May peace be within you."

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

I will seek your (the city’s) good.