¹ I rejoiced with those who said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
² Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.
³ Jerusalem is a well-built city that is firmly joined together, ^[1]
4 a city to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, ^[2]
    as a testimony to Israel,
    to give praise to the name of the Lord.
⁵ That is where the thrones for judgment sit,
the thrones of the house of David.
⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May those who love you prosper.
⁷ May there be peace within your fortifications,
prosperity within your citadels.”
⁸ For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
now I will say, “Peace be within you.”
⁹ For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I will seek good for you.

¹ To you I lift up my eyes,
to you who are seated in heaven.
² Indeed, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord our God, until he shows us his grace.
³ Show grace to us, O Lord.
Show grace to us,
for we have had our fill of contempt.
⁴ Our souls have had their fill of the scorn of the smug
and of the contempt of the arrogant.