Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.
- KJV Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
- BSB May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.”
- NASB “May peace be within your walls, And prosperity within your palaces.”
- NLT O Jerusalem, may there be peace within your walls and prosperity in your palaces.
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Quick answer
He prays for peace within the walls and prosperity within the palaces. The desire is for the wholeness and security of God's city.
Overview
Spelling out his prayer, the psalmist asks for 'peace' inside the walls and well-being in the strongholds. He seeks comprehensive flourishing for the whole community. Such longing for peace points beyond the earthly city to the perfect peace of the heavenly Jerusalem secured by Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
- Isa 54:13All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.
- Jas 3:18Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
- Ps 48:3God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.
- Ps 48:13Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
- Isa 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
- 1 Chr 12:18Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
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