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1 I rejoiced when they kept on asking me, “Let us go to the LORD’s Temple.”

2 Our feet are standing inside your gates, Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem stands built up, a city knitted together.

4 To it the tribes ascend— the tribes of the LORD— as decreed to Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

5 For thrones are established there for judgment, thrones of the house of David.

6 Pray for peace for Jerusalem: “May those who love you be at peace! ^a

7 May peace be within your ramparts, and ^b prosperity ^c within your fortresses.”

8 For the sake of my relatives and friends I will now say, “May there be peace within you.”

9 For the sake of the Temple of the LORD our God, I will seek your welfare.