Psalms 122:1
I was glad when they said to me, “We will go to the house of the Lord.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
In Context
2Now we are standing, within your gates, O Jerusalem.
Cross References
Psalms 26:8O Lord, I love your house, the place where your glory lives.
Psalms 55:14We used to be so close, together we walked in God’s house with the crowd.
Psalms 84:1How dearly loved is the place where you live, Lord of hosts!
Psalms 119:111In your charges are my everlasting inheritance, they are the joy of my heart.
Psalms 121:1I lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where will help for me come?
Psalms 124:1“Had it not been the Lord who was for us” let Israel say
Matthew Henry on Psalms 122:1
This psalm seems to have been penned by David for the use of the people of Israel, when they came up to Jerusalem to worship at the three solemn feasts. It was in David's time that Jerusalem was first chosen to be the city where God would record his name. It being a new thing, this, among other means, was used to bring the people to be in love with Jerusalem, as the holy city, though it was but the other day in the hands of the Jebusites. Observe, I. The joy with which they were to go up to Jerusalem, ver. 1, 2 .… Read the whole commentary →