Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea because of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek to do thee good.
New American Standard Bible
I will
King James Version
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
Holman Bible
I will seek your good.
International Standard Version
For the sake of the Temple of the LORD our God, I will seek your welfare. A Song of Ascents
A Conservative Version
For the sake of the house of LORD our God I will seek thy good.
American Standard Version
For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.
Amplified
For the sake of the house of the Lord our God [which is Jerusalem],
I will seek your (the city’s) good.
Darby Translation
Because of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek thy good.
Julia Smith Translation
For sake of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek out good for thee.
King James 2000
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.
Modern King James verseion
Because of the house of Jehovah our God I will seek your good.
NET Bible
For the sake of the temple of the Lord our God I will pray for you to prosper.
New Heart English Bible
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.
The Emphasized Bible
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, will I seek blessing for thee.
Webster
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
World English Bible
For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good. A Song of Ascents.
Youngs Literal Translation
For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God, I seek good for thee!
Themes
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 122:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer For Jerusalem
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will wish thee prosperity. 9 Yea because of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek to do thee good.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:10
But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant of the Ammonites heard that, it grieved them sore that there was come a man which sought the wealth of the children of Israel.
1 Chronicles 29:3
And yet because I have lust to the house of my God, I have several gold and silver which I give to the house of my God above all I have prepared for the holy house:
Nehemiah 13:14
Think upon me, O my God, herein, and wipe not out my mercy, that I have showed on the house of my God, and on the officers thereof!
Esther 10:3
For Mordecai the Jew was the second next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted among the multitude of his brethren, as one that seeketh the wealth of his people, and speaketh the best for all his seed.
Psalm 26:8
LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Psalm 69:9
For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me; and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee is fallen upon me.
Psalm 84:1-2
{Upon Gittith, a Psalm of the sons of Korah} O how amiable are thy dwellings, thou LORD of Hosts!
Psalm 84:10
For one day in thy court is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of the ungodly.
Psalm 102:13-14
Arise, therefore, and have mercy upon Zion, for it is time to have mercy upon her; yea, the time is come.
Psalm 137:5-6
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my righthand forget her cunning.
John 2:17
And his disciples remembered, how that it was written, "The zeal of thine house, hath even eaten me."