Psalms 122:3

O Jerusalem, built close-packed, like a city without breach or gap,

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Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

In Context

2Now we are standing, within your gates, O Jerusalem.

4to you do the tribes come, the tribes of the Lord, as the law has ordained for Israel, there to give thanks to the Lord.

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Cross References

Psalms 147:2The Lord builds up Jerusalem, the outcasts of Israel he gathers.

Ephesians 4:4There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there was but one hope set before you when you received your call.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 122:2-6

The Pleasures of Public Worship. 1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord . 2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: 4 Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord , unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord . 5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Here we have, I. The pleasure which David and other pious Israelites took in approaching to and… Read the whole commentary →

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