the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 122:9
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For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek what is best for you, O Jerusalem.
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God I will seek your good.
For the sake of the Temple of the Lord our God, I wish good for her.
For the sake of the temple of the Lord our God I will pray for you to prosper.
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God [which is Jerusalem], I will seek your (the city's) good.
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.
For the hous of oure Lord God; Y souyte goodis to thee.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
And because of the house of the Lord our God, I will work for your good.
For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.
Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will be working for your good.
For the sake of the house of Adonai our God, I will seek your well-being.
Because of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.
For the good of the Temple of the Lord our God, I pray that good things will happen to this city.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
Because of the house of the Lord our God: I will seeke thy good.
Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will pray for your good.
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.
Because of the House of the Lord our God, I will procure thy wealth.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God I pray for your prosperity.
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, will I seek blessing for thee.
(121-9) Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.
Yea because of the house of God our Lord: I wyll procure to do thee good.
Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought thy good.
Because of the house of the Lord our God,I will pursue your prosperity.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.
Because of the house of Jehovah, our God, I will seek your good.
For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God, I seek good for thee!
Yee because of ye house of the LORDE oure God, I wil seke to do the good.
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God,I will seek your good.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the house: Psalms 26:8, Psalms 69:9, Psalms 84:1, Psalms 84:2, Psalms 84:10, 1 Chronicles 29:3, John 2:17
I will seek: Psalms 102:13, Psalms 102:14, Psalms 137:5, Psalms 137:6, Nehemiah 2:10, Nehemiah 13:14
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:25 - he will bring 1 Kings 8:66 - joyful Ezra 8:30 - the house of our God Nehemiah 10:39 - we will not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Because of the house of the Lord our God,.... Not because of his own palace, nor because of his own house and family; nor because of his own personal interest; though all were concerned in the peace of Jerusalem: but chiefly because of the sanctuary of the Lord, as the Targum; because of the worship and service of God in it; because of his great love and zeal for the house and church of the living God, which ate him up, Psalms 69:9;
I will seek thy good; the good of Jerusalem, the good of the church of God; do all the good he could to it both with his purse and prayers, and by stirring up others to do the same; see Psalms 51:18.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good - Because of the sanctuary within thee; because that is the place where God is worshipped. The principal attraction in thee is the fact that in thee is the place where the worship of God is celebrated. It is this which gives its main importance in my view to the place; it is for this, and because I desire its influence to be perpetuated and extended, that I seek thy prosperity. This expresses a deep feeling in the mind of a pious man. To him the church of God is the most important of all objects, gives the principal interest to a place, and is everywhere to him the chief attraction. The church does more to adorn a place than anything else; it is that which exerts the best influence on a place, and sends the best influence abroad; it is that which to him is the source of chief comfort and delight. His heart is there; his main delight is there; his arrangements will be made so as best to enjoy the privileges of the sanctuary; and his plans of life will all contemplate the welfare, the extension, and the influence of the church of God. It is religion which in his view is the chief ornament of a place; religion which in any community is the principal fountain of its happiness and prosperity; religion which is the central and controlling influence on the private dwellings, and the public institutions, of a nation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 122:9. Because of the house of the Lord our God — Particularly will I wish thee well, because thou art the seat of religion, the place where our merciful God has condescended to dwell.
To the captives in Babylon the Prophet Jeremiah had given this charge, Jeremiah 29:7: "And seek שלום shalom, the prosperity of the city, whither I have caused you to be carried captives, and pray unto the Lord for it; for in the prosperity thereof ye shall have prosperity."
Was this a duty for the captives? Yes. And is it the duty of every man for his own country? God, nature, common sense, and self-interest say, YES! And what must we think of the wretches who not only do not thus pray, but labour to destroy the public peace, to subvert the government of their country, to raise seditions, and to destroy all its civil and religious institutions? Think of them! Why, that hemp would be disgraced by hanging them.
There is a fine picture given us here of the state of Jerusalem after the restoration of the Jews. The walls were finished, the city rebuilt, beautiful, strong, and regular, the temple and its worship were restored, the courts of justice were re-established, the constituted authorities in Church and state were doing their duty; and God was pouring out his blessing upon all. Who could see this without praying, May God increase thy peace, and establish thy prosperity for ever!
ANALYSIS OF THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND PSALM
The psalmist, in the person of the people, -
I. Expresses his joy that he might join with the Church in God's service, Psalms 122:1-2.
II. Commends the Church, under the name of Jerusalem, for her unity, Psalms 122:3; religious worship, Psalms 122:4; civil and ecclesiastical policy, Psalms 122:5.
III. Exhorts all to pray for its peace and prosperity, Psalms 122:6; and puts the form of prayer into their mouths, Psalms 122:7.
IV. Shows his own readiness to do this, and offers up his supplications, Psalms 122:8-9.
I. The psalmist congratulates himself and the people on the restoration of God's worship: -
1. He expresses his own joy: "I was glad."
2. To hear of the unanimity of the people mutually exhorting each other to it: "When they said unto me."
3. "Let us go into the house of the Lord." Let us all go, hear his word, give him thanks, and make prayers and supplications to him.
II. He commends Jerusalem three ways: -
1. For its unity: it was compact together; it was united in itself; and united, both in politics and religion, in its inhabitants.
2. For its being the place of God's worship: 1. For "thither the tribes go up" thrice in the year, as was ordained, Exodus 23:14, to celebrate their deliverance from Egypt, in keeping the passover. 2. The giving of the law, in the feast of pentecost. 3. Their preservation in the wilderness, in the feast of tabernacles.
These tribes are "the tribes of the Lord." A very honourable title.
"Unto the testimony of Israel." To the ark of the covenant, the pledge of the covenant between God and the people.
The end for which they went up: "To give thanks unto the name of the Lord."
3. He commends Jerusalem for its civil and ecclesiastical policy: 1. "For there are set thrones of judgment." The tribunals and courts of justice are there. 2. "The thrones of the house of David." The court and throne of a legitimate sovereign.
III. He exhorts the tribes to pray for a continuance of its present happy state.
1. "Pray for the peace," c. It is our duty to pray for the prosperity of the nation and of the Church of God.
2. "They shall prosper that love thee." Those who love both are blessed, those who do not are cursed.
3. And that we may know the prayer that God will hear, he puts one in our mouth, "Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces." It is well to join peace and prosperity together. Peace without prosperity is but a secure possession of misery and prosperity without peace is but a dubious and uncertain felicity.
1. "Peace be within thy walls." Not only thy fortifications, civil and religious institutions, but also among all thy officers, soldiers, and inhabitants, for they constitute the strength and safety of the kingdom.
2. "And prosperity within thy palaces." In the king's house, his family, his ministers; if there be dissensions there, ruin will soon follow.
IV. The psalmist shows his own readiness to do this.
1. "I will now say, Peace be within thee." So should all the ministers of religion pray.
2. "I will seek thy good." So should the king and every officer of state resolve. All should be united in so good a work. They should not seek their own good, but the good, not the goods, of the people.
For this the psalmist gives these reasons: -
1. "For my brethren and companions' sakes." We are not only subjects of one king, citizens of the same city, but we have all one God and Father.
2. "Because of the house of the Lord." For the maintenance of true religion. If religion fail, the kingdom will fail; prosperity will be at an end; the nation will be divided, distracted, destroyed. Religion, the true religion in a country, is the consolation of the good, and the bridle that holds in the jaws of the wicked. Let us all pray for the prosperity of pure and undefiled religion, and the prosperity of the state!
