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“Let us go to his dwelling place;
    let us worship at his footstool.”(A)

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“Let us go to his dwelling place,(A)
    let us worship at his footstool,(B) saying,

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Extol the Lord our God;
    worship at his footstool.
    Holy is he!(A)

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Exalt(A) the Lord our God
    and worship at his footstool;
    he is holy.

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But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,
    will enter your house;
I will bow down toward your holy temple
    in awe of you.(A)

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But I, by your great love,
    can come into your house;
in reverence(A) I bow down(B)
    toward your holy temple.(C)

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God’s Warnings Fulfilled

How the Lord in his anger
    has humiliated[a] daughter Zion!
He has thrown down from heaven to earth
    the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered his footstool
    in the day of his anger.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain

[a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
    with the cloud of his anger[b]!(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
    from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool(B)
    in the day of his anger.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt

Psalm 122

Song of Praise and Prayer for Jerusalem

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

I was glad when they said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”(A)

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Psalm 122

A song of ascents. Of David.

I rejoiced with those who said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

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19 Open to me the gates of righteousness,
    that I may enter through them
    and give thanks to the Lord.(A)

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19 Open for me the gates(A) of the righteous;
    I will enter(B) and give thanks to the Lord.

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    Many peoples shall come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.(A)

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Many peoples(A) will come and say,

“Come, let us go(B) up to the mountain(C) of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law(D) will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.(E)

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O come, let us worship and bow down;
    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!(A)

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Come, let us bow down(A) in worship,(B)
    let us kneel(C) before the Lord our Maker;(D)

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13 I will come into your house with burnt offerings;
    I will pay you my vows,(A)
14 those that my lips uttered
    and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.(B)

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13 I will come to your temple with burnt offerings(A)
    and fulfill my vows(B) to you—
14 vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke
    when I was in trouble.

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Extol the Lord our God,
    and worship at his holy mountain,
    for the Lord our God is holy.(A)

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Exalt the Lord our God
    and worship at his holy mountain,
    for the Lord our God is holy.

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