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Psalm 122: where fellowship is complete


One of my desires is to pictorially interpret the Songs of Degrees (Psalms 120-134); one composition per psalm. Psalm 120 and 121 are here and here.

I've been stuck on Psalm 122 for about 4 weeks; none of my sketches have been satisfying. There's so much in this psalm. Here is the first complete effort for 122, although it doesn't satisfy me either.


In this psalm, the wanderer finds himself already in the precincts of Jerusalem, the City of God and, in verse 3, he notices something.


This something is translated in our English versions as "Jerusalem is a city that is compact together," or "... is bound firmly together," or variations thereof.
But I like the English translation of the Septuagint, which is the Greek version of the Old Testament. Here, verse 3 is translated this way:

"Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete ..."

A city whose fellowship is complete.

I've been wondering and wandering over this for days.


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Psalm 122
, ESV (121 in the Septuagint)

1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”
2 Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!
3 Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together,

(3 Jerusalem is built as a city whose fellowship is complete),

4 to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
5 There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
7 Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”
8 For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”
9 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.

1 comments:

Daniel Leslie Peterson February 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM  

Peace and security.
"Paint the town."
Jeru-salem, Spo-kane, New-port.
"I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband."

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