Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God, I seek good for thee!
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.
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.
Themes
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 122:9
Verse Info
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;'