Psalms 122:9
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.
BSB
ASV
For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.
KJV
Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good. He prays for Jerusalem because of Zion. How the church salts and savours all around it. The presence of Jehovah, our God, endears to us every place wherein he reveals his glory. Well may we seek her good within whose walls there dwells God who alone is good. We are to live for God's cause, and to be ready to die for it.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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John 2:17His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
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because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.
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Psalms 84:10For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
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One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…
O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
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Esther 10:3For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
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But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.