Psalms 122:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God, I seek good for thee!

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 2:10 : 10 and Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them -- a great evil -- that a man hath come in to seek good for the sons of Israel.
  • Neh 13:14 : 14 Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.
  • Esth 10:3 : 3 For Mordecai the Jew `is' second to king Ahasuerus, and a great man of the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking good for his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
  • Ps 26:8 : 8 Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.
  • Ps 69:9 : 9 For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me.
  • Ps 84:1-2 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' -- A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts! 2 My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 For good `is' a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
  • Ps 102:13-14 : 13 Thou -- Thou risest -- Thou pitiest Zion, For the time to favour her, For the appointed time hath come. 14 For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.
  • 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 `And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have -- a peculiar treasure of gold and silver -- I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:
  • John 2:17 : 17 And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'
  • Ps 137:5-6 : 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth! 6 My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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    1A Song of the Ascents, by David. I have rejoiced in those saying to me, `To the house of Jehovah we go.'

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    8Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.

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    6Only -- goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling `is' in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!

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    1A Song of the Ascents. Unto Thee I have lifted up mine eyes, O dweller in the heavens.

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    18My vows to Jehovah let me complete, I pray you, before all His people,

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    4One `thing' I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

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    8To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

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    176I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

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    2I bow myself toward Thy holy temple, And I confess Thy name, For Thy kindness, and for Thy truth, For Thou hast made great Thy saying above all Thy name.

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    2Who are standing in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of the house of our God.

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    5Till I do find a place for Jehovah, Tabernacles for the Mighty One of Jacob.

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    8Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

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    9Our shield, see, O God, And behold the face of Thine anointed,

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