“Pray for Peace.” Psalm 122

“Pray for Peace” Psalm 122 (antiphon: v. 6)

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
“May they be secure who love you!

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

122 

I was glad when they said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

Our feet have been standing
    within your gates, O Jerusalem!

Jerusalem—built as a city
    that is bound firmly together,

to which the tribes go up,
    the tribes of the Lord,
as was decreed for[a] Israel,
    to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

There thrones for judgment were set,
    the thrones of the house of David.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
    “May they be secure who love you!

Peace be within your walls
    and security within your towers!”

For my brothers and companions’ sake
    I will say, “Peace be within you!”

For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
    I will seek your good.

Glory be to the Father and I to the Son*

and to the Holy | Spirit;

as it was in the be- I ginning,

is now, and will be forever. I Amen.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
“May they be secure who love you!

COLLECT OF THE DAY

Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come, that by Your protection we may be rescued from the threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mighty deliverance; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen