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Psalm 122:7–8

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122:7May there be peace inside your defenses,

and prosperity13 inside your fortresses!14

122:8For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors

I will say, “May there be peace in you!”

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Footnotes

  1. 13 or “security.”
  2. 14 The psalmist uses second feminine singular pronominal forms to address personified Jerusalem.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Peace be within your walls

and security within your towers!”

For my brothers and companions’ sake

I will say, “Peace be within you!”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

May there be peace within your walls

and security within your citadels.”

For the sake of my family and friends,

I will say, “Peace be within you.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

may there be peace within your walls,

security within your fortresses.”

Because of my brothers and friends,

I will say, “May peace be in you.”

NLTNew Living Translation

O Jerusalem, may there be peace within your walls

and prosperity in your palaces.

For the sake of my family and friends, I will say,

“May you have peace.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

May peace be within your walls,

security within your palaces.”

For the sake of my brothers and my friends,

I will say, “Peace be within you.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Peace be within thy walls,

And prosperity within thy palaces.

For my brethren and companions’ sakes,

I will now say, Peace be within thee.