Psalm 122:9 {121:9}
Good News Translation
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God I pray for your prosperity.

New Revised Standard Version
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.

Contemporary English Version
And because of the house of the LORD our God, I will work for your good.

New American Bible
For the sake of the house of the LORD, our God, I pray for your good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.

the house

Psalm 26:8 I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth.

Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Psalm 84:1,2,10 Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. [2] How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! . . .

1 Chronicles 29:3 Now over and above the things which I have offered into the house of my God I give of my own proper goods, gold and silver for the temple of my God, beside what things I have prepared for the holy house.

John 2:17 And his disciples remembered, that it was written: The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up.

I will seek

Psalm 102:13,14 Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come. . . .

Psalm 137:5,6 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten. . . .

Nehemiah 2:10 And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.

Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me, O my God, for this thing, and wipe not out my kindnesses, which I have done relating to the house of my God and his ceremonies.

Context
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
8For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee. 9Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:10
And Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, heard it, and it grieved them exceedingly, that a man was come, who sought the prosperity of the children of Israel.

Esther 10:3
And how Mardochai of the race of the Jews, was next after king Assuerus: and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking those things which were for the welfare of his seed.

Psalm 122:8
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