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Let us go to the sanctuary of the Lord;
    let us worship at the footstool of his throne.

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Exalt the Lord our God!
    Bow low before his feet, for he is holy!

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Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house;
    I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe.

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God’s Anger at Sin

The Lord in his anger
    has cast a dark shadow over beautiful Jerusalem.[a]
The fairest of Israel’s cities lies in the dust,
    thrown down from the heights of heaven.
In his day of great anger,
    the Lord has shown no mercy even to his Temple.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2:1a Hebrew the daughter of Zion; also in 2:8, 10, 18.
  2. 2:1b Hebrew his footstool.

Psalm 122

A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.

I was glad when they said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

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19 Open for me the gates where the righteous enter,
    and I will go in and thank the Lord.

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People from many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of Jacob’s God.
There he will teach us his ways,
    and we will walk in his paths.”
For the Lord’s teaching will go out from Zion;
    his word will go out from Jerusalem.

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Come, let us worship and bow down.
    Let us kneel before the Lord our maker,

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13 Now I come to your Temple with burnt offerings
    to fulfill the vows I made to you—
14 yes, the sacred vows that I made
    when I was in deep trouble.

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Exalt the Lord our God,
    and worship at his holy mountain in Jerusalem,
    for the Lord our God is holy!

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