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Psalm 122:8-9
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8 [a]Out of love for my relatives and friends,
    I will say, “May peace be within you.”
9 Out of love for the house of the Lord, our God,
    I will pray for your well-being.

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  1. Psalm 122:8 Jerusalem is transferred into an ideal, an eschatological expression of what God had planned for his people, and the psalmist prays for the fulfillment of God’s plan. What Jerusalem was to the Israelite, the Church is to the Christian.
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