1I rejoiced when people said to me,
‘We’ll go to Yahweh’s house.’
2Our feet have been standing
in your gates, Yerushalaim,
3Yerushalaim, which is built
as a town that is joined together to itself,
4Where the clans went up, Yah’s clans,
(an affirmation for Yisra’el),
to confess Yahweh’s name.
5Because thrones for exercising authority sat there,
thrones for David’s household.
6Ask for the well-being of Yerushalaim;
may people who are loyal to it be secure.
7May there be well-being in your rampart,
ease in your citadels.
8For the sake of my brothers and my friends
I shall please speak of well-being for you.
9For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God
I will seek good things for you.
O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.
Gertrude the Great