Psalms 122 · Verse 3

Psalms 122:3

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
Psalms 122:3, King James Version

Psalms 122:3 in other translations

BSBJerusalem is built up as a city united together,
WEBJerusalem is built as a city that is compact together,
ASVJerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact together;
YLTJerusalem--the builded one-- Is as a city that is joined to itself together.
DARBYJerusalem, which art built as a city that is compact together,
BBEO Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together;
WebsterJerusalem is built as a city that is compact together:

What does Psalms 122:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 122:3-5
3-5. compact together--all parts united, as in David's time.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 Jerusalem - compact together - It is now well rebuilt, every part contributing to the strength of the whole. It is also a state of great political and spiritual union. It is the center of union to all the tribes, for each tribe has an equal interest in that God who is worshipped there.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 122:1-5

The pleasure and profit from means of grace, should make us disregard trouble and fatigue in going to them; and we should quicken one another to what is good. We should desire our Christian friends, when they have any good work in hand, to call for us, and take us with them. With what readiness should we think of the heavenly Jerusalem! How cheerfully should we bear the cross and welcome death, in hopes of a crown…

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Psalms 122:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְרוּשָׁלִַ֥םye.ru.sha.LimJerusalemH3389
הַבְּנוּיָ֑הha.be.nu.Yahwhich was builtH1129
כְּ֝עִ֗ירke.'Irlike a cityH5892
שֶׁחֻבְּרָה\־she.chu.be.rah-that <it> was joined togetherH2266
לָּ֥הּlahto itself
יַחְדָּֽו\׃yach.DavtogetherH3162

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 122:3

  • 2 Samuel 5:9

    So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

  • Ephesians 2:20-21

    And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

  • Nehemiah 4:6

    So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

  • Ephesians 4:4-7

    There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

  • Psalms 147:2

    The Lord doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

  • Revelation 21:10-27

    And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
builded.
2Sa 5:9; Eph 2:20,21; 4:4-7; Re 21:10-27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 122:2

    Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

  • Psalms 122:3

    Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

  • Psalms 122:4

    Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

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Psalms 122:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Jerusalem, que se ha edificado como una ciudad que está bien unida entre sí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Jérusalem, qui es bâtie comme une ville bien unie ensemble en elle-même!
German
Elberfelder 1871
Jerusalem, die du aufgebaut bist als eine fest in sich geschlossene Stadt,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri, quia multum repleti sumus despectione;