A Song of degrees of David.

8,6,8,6

^1I joy'd when to the house of God,

Go up, they said to me.

^2Jerusalem, within thy gates

our feet shall standing be.

^3Jerus'lem, as a city, is

compactly built together:

^4Unto that place the tribes go up,

the tribes of God go thither:

To Isr'el's testimony, there

to God's name thanks to pay.

^5For thrones of judgment, ev'n the thrones

of David's house, there stay.

^6Pray that Jerusalem may have

peace and felicity:

Let them that love thee and thy peace

have still prosperity.

^7Therefore I wish that peace may still

within thy walls remain,

And ever may thy palaces

prosperity retain.

^8Now, for my friends' and brethren's sakes,

Peace be in thee, I'll say.

^9And for the house of God our Lord,

I'll seek thy good alway.