A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 122
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Our feet shall stand--literally, "are standing."
gates--(Compare Psa 9:14; Psa 87:2).
compact together--all parts united, as in David's time.
testimony--If "unto" is supplied, this may denote the ark (Exo 25:10-21); otherwise the act of going is denoted, called a testimony in allusion to the requisition (Deu 16:16), with which it was a compliance.
there are set thrones--or, "do sit, thrones," used for the occupants, David's sons (Sa2 8:18).
Let peace--including prosperity, everywhere prevail.
In the welfare of the city, as its civil, and especially the religious relations, was involved that of Israel.
now--as in Psa 115:2.
Let me say--house of . . . God--in wider sense, the Church, whose welfare would be promoted by the good of Jerusalem.