Psalm 122:8
New International Version
For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”

New Living Translation
For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, “May you have peace.”

English Standard Version
For my brothers and companions’ sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”

Berean Standard Bible
For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”

King James Bible
For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

New King James Version
For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

New American Standard Bible
For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

NASB 1995
For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

NASB 1977
For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

Legacy Standard Bible
For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

Amplified Bible
For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

Christian Standard Bible
Because of my brothers and friends, I will say, “May peace be in you.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Because of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be with you.”

American Standard Version
For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because of my brothers and my friends I shall pronounce peace upon you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the sake of my brethren and my neighbours, I have indeed spoken peace concerning thee.

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

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

English Revised Version
For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
For the sake of my relatives and friends, let me say, "May it go well for you!"

Good News Translation
For the sake of my relatives and friends I say to Jerusalem, "Peace be with you!"

International Standard Version
For the sake of my relatives and friends I will now say, "May there be peace within you."

JPS Tanakh 1917
For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say: 'Peace be within thee.'

Literal Standard Version
For the sake of my brothers and my companions, | Please let me speak, “Peace [be] in you.”

Majority Standard Bible
For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”

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

NET Bible
For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say, "May there be peace in you!"

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

New Heart English Bible
For my brothers' and companions' sakes, I will now say, "Peace be within you."

Webster's Bible Translation
For my brethren and companions' sake, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

World English Bible
For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

Young's Literal Translation
For the sake of my brethren and my companions, Let me speak, I pray thee, 'Peace be in thee.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
7May there be peace within your walls, and prosperity inside your fortresses.” 8For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.” 9For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your prosperity.…

Cross References
Matthew 10:12
As you enter the home, greet its occupants.

John 20:19
It was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. "Peace be with you!" He said to them.

1 Samuel 25:6
and say to him, 'Long life to you, and peace to you and your house and to all that belongs to you.

Psalm 133:1
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is when brothers live in harmony!


Treasury of Scripture

For my brothers and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.

Psalm 16:3
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

Psalm 42:4
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Psalm 119:63
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

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Psalm 122
1. David professes his joy for the church
6. And prays for the peace thereof














(8) Peace be within thee.--Here the formal greeting actually appears, that which greets every traveller in the East (John 20:19). (Comp. Luke 10:5.) The full form appears in 1Samuel 25:6.

Verse 8. - For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. The inhabitants of Jerusalem are the writer's "brethren and companions." He is not a mere pilgrim on a visit to the holy city.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For the sake
לְ֭מַעַן (lə·ma·‘an)
Preposition
Strong's 4616: Purpose -- intent

of my brothers
אַחַ֣י (’a·ḥay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 251: A brother, )

and friends,
וְרֵעָ֑י (wə·rê·‘āy)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

I will say,
אֲדַבְּרָה־ (’ă·ḏab·bə·rāh-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

“Peace
שָׁל֣וֹם (šā·lō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7965: Safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity, peace

[be] within you.”
בָּֽךְ׃ (bāḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew


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