I will now say] Let me now say, Peace &c.: or more probably, Let me now speak peace concerning thee, i.e. pray for thy welfare. 9. For the sake of the house &c.] Dear as Jerusalem is to him as the centre of the nation’s civil life, it is yet dearer as the centre of the national religion. I will (Let me) seek thy good] So Neh. 2:10, “a man to seek the good of the children of Israel.” This touching Psalm is an utterance of unfaltering faith and patience in the face of contemptuous scorn and