Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God, I seek good for thee!

New American Standard Bible

For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I will seek your good.

King James Version

Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

Holman Bible

Because of the house of the Lord our God,
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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Yea because of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek to do thee 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.

Context Readings

A Prayer For Jerusalem

8 For the sake of my brethren and my companions, Let me speak, I pray thee, 'Peace be in thee.' 9 For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God, I seek good for thee!

Cross References

Nehemiah 2:10

and Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it is evil to them -- a great evil -- that a man hath come in to seek good for the sons of Israel.

1 Chronicles 29:3

And again, because of my delighting in the house of my God, the substance I have -- a peculiar treasure of gold and silver -- I have given for the house of my God, even over and above all I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:

Nehemiah 13:14

Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.

Esther 10:3

For Mordecai the Jew is second to king Ahasuerus, and a great man of the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking good for his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

Psalm 26:8

Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.

Psalm 69:9

For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me.

Psalm 84:1-2

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' -- A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts!

Psalm 84:10

For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.

Psalm 102:13-14

Thou -- Thou risest -- Thou pitiest Zion, For the time to favour her, For the appointed time hath come.

Psalm 137:5-6

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

John 2:17

And his disciples remembered that it is written, 'The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

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