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Jerusalem is a well-built city that is firmly joined together,[a]
a city to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord,[b]
    as a testimony to Israel,
    to give praise to the name of the Lord.
That is where the thrones for judgment sit,
the thrones of the house of David.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 122:3 The meaning is uncertain. Literally Jerusalem, the built one, like a city which is joined to her together
  2. Psalm 122:4 The short version of the divine name, Yah, is used rather than the full form, Yahweh.