Psalm 122:8 {121:8}
Good News Translation
For the sake of my relatives and friends I say to Jerusalem, "Peace be with you!"

New Revised Standard Version
For the sake of my relatives and friends I will say, “Peace be within you.”

Contemporary English Version
Because of my friends and my relatives, I will pray for peace.

New American Bible
For the sake of my brothers and friends I say, “Peace be with you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.

Psalm 16:3 To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.

Psalm 42:4 These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

Psalm 119:63 I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments.

Ephesians 4:4-6 One body and one Spirit: as you are called in one hope of your calling. . . .

Philippians 2:2-5 Fulfil ye my joy, that you be of one mind, having the same charity, being of one accord, agreeing in sentiment. . . .

James 3:13-18 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. . . .

Context
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
7Let peace be in thy strength: and abundance in thy towers. 8For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbours, I spoke peace of thee.9Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:12
And when you come into the house, salute it, saying: Peace be to this house.

John 20:19
Now when it was late the same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them: Peace be to you.

1 Samuel 25:6
And you shall say: Peace be to my brethren, and to thee, and peace to thy house, and peace to all that thou hast.

Psalm 133:1
A gradual canticle of David. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity:

Psalm 122:7
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