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This psalm seems to have been penned by David for the use of the people of Israel, when they came up to Jerusalem to worship at the three solemn feasts. It was in David's time that Jerusalem was first chosen to be the city where God would record his name. It being a new thing, this, among other means, was used to bring the people to be in love with Jerusalem, as the holy city, though it was but the other day in the hands of the Jebusites. Observe, I. The joy with which they were to go up to Jerusalem, Ps 122:1,2. II. The great esteem they were to have of Jerusalem, Ps 122:3-5. III. The great concern they were to have for Jerusalem, and the prayers they were to put up for its welfare, Ps 122:6-9. In singing this psalm we must have an eye to the gospel church, which is called the "Jerusalem that is from above."
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The Pleasures of Public Worship
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公共敬拜的喜乐
大卫上行之诗。
¹ 人对我说「我们到耶和华的殿去」，我就欢喜。
² 耶路撒冷啊，我们的脚必站在你的门内。
³ 耶路撒冷被建造，如同连络整齐的一座城。
⁴ 众支派，就是耶和华的支派，上那里去，按以色列的证据赞美耶和华的名。
⁵ 因为在那里设立审判的宝座，就是大卫家的宝座。
此处我们看到，
一、大卫和其他敬虔的以色列人在亲近神、参加公共敬拜中所得到的喜乐（诗122:1,2）。
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他们所受的邀请十分可悦。大卫自己心里欢喜，并愿每个以色列人都说，他「人对我说『我们到耶和华的殿去』，我就欢喜」。注意，（1）神的旨意是要我们同心敬拜他，要许多人一同聚集，在公共敬拜中等候他。我们当在自己的家中敬拜神，但这还不够；我们必须「到耶和华的殿去」，在那里向他献上当尽的尊崇，「不可停止聚会」。（2）我们不仅当彼此同心，更当彼此激发、彼此勉励，一同去公共敬拜中敬拜神。「我们去吧」——不是说「你们去为我们祷告，我们留在家里」；而是「我们也去」（亚8:21）。不是说「你们先行，我们随后从容跟上」；也不是说「我们先行，你们随后跟来」；而是「我们一同去吧」，为神的荣耀，也为彼此的建立和勉励。我们自己迟缓怠惰，别人也是如此，因此我们当这样彼此激发、彼此砥砺行善，如铁磨铁一般。（3）以神为乐的人，也必以蒙召和有机会敬拜他为乐。大卫自己虽在宗教操练的殷勤上最不缺鞭策，却丝毫不见怪，反视之为恩慈而欢喜——当他被邀「上耶和华的殿去」，便是与他臣民中最卑微的人同去，他也欢喜。我们当盼望我们的基督徒朋友手中有何善工时，便呼召我们、带我们同去。
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对这事的展望十分令人愉悦。他们以圣洁的夸胜如此说（诗122:2）：「耶路撒冷啊，我们的脚必站在你的门内！」从乡下来的人，旅途疲倦时，便以此自慰：不久便要到耶路撒冷了，那将补偿路上一切的劳顿。我们到了那里要站在那里作仆人；在耶路撒冷占一席之地也是美事，即便「在旁边站立的人」中（亚3:7），即便作一个守门的（诗84:10）。如今我们为约柜寻得安息之所，它在哪里，我们也必在那里。
二、对耶路撒冷的赞美（如诗48:12）。
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它是美丽的城，不仅因位置，更因建筑。它被建为「一座城」——房屋并非散布，而是相连；街道宽阔匀称。它建造划一，「连络整齐」——房屋彼此支持加固。城虽分为上城下城，但耶布斯人既被赶出，全城尽在神百姓手中，便说是「连络整齐」的。它是福音教会的预表——教会在圣洁的爱和基督徒的相交中「连络整齐」，全城如同一体。
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它是圣城（诗122:4）。它是全以色列彼此相会之处：「众支派上那里去」——来自全国各处，如同一人，作为「耶和华的支派」，为顺服他的命令。它是为他们指定的总聚集之所；他们来到一起，（1）为受教于神：他们来到「以色列的证据」那里，要听神对他们说的话，求问他的圣谕。（2）为将荣耀归于神：「赞美耶和华的名」——这是我们众人都有理由行的，尤其是那些有「以色列的证据」在他们中间的人。神若用他的话对我们说话，我们便有理由以感恩的话回答他。请看我们参加公共敬拜是为着何等的差使——「赞美」。
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它是王城（诗122:5）：「在那里设立审判的宝座」。因此百姓有理由热爱耶路撒冷，因为那里有一位合神心意的人施行公义。百姓的民事利益与他们的宗教事务同样得着保障；他们的法庭设在耶路撒冷，他们在司法法庭上极其有福——一如我们这边的威斯敏斯特大厅。请观察，「以色列的证据」与「审判的宝座」如此相邻，是何等美景，它们又是好邻舍，可以大大彼此相助。愿「以色列的证据」引导「审判的宝座」，「审判的宝座」保护「以色列的证据」。
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The Pleasures of Public Worship
A song of degrees of David.
¹ I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
² Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
³ Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
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.
⁵ For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Here we have,
I. The pleasure which David and other pious Israelites took in approaching to and attending upon God in public ordinances, Ps 122:1,2.
1. The invitation to them was very welcome. David was himself glad, and would have every Israelite to say that he was glad, when he was called upon to go up to the house of the Lord. Note, (1.) It is the will of God that we should worship him in concert, that many should join together to wait upon him in public ordinances. We ought to worship God in our own houses, but that is not enough; we must go into the house of the Lord, to pay our homage to him there, and not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. (2.) We should not only agree with one another, but excite and stir up one another, to go to worship God in public. Let us go; not, "Do you go and pray for us, and we will stay at home;" but, We will go also, Zec 8:21. Not, "Do you go before, and we will follow at our leisure;" or, "We will go first, and you shall come after us;" but, "Let us go together, for the honour of God and for our mutual edification and encouragement." We ourselves are slow and backward, and others are so too, and therefore we should thus quicken and sharpen one another to that which is good, as iron sharpens iron. (3.) Those that rejoice in God will rejoice in calls and opportunities to wait upon him. David himself, though he had as little need of a spur to his zeal in religious exercises as any, yet was so far from taking it as an affront that he was glad of it as a kindness when he was called upon to go up to the house of the Lord with the meanest of his subjects. We should desire our Christian friends, when they have any good work in hand, to call for us and take us along with them.
2. The prospect of them was very pleasing. They speak it with a holy triumph (Ps 122:2): Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem! Those that came out of the country, when they found the journey tedious, comforted themselves with this, that they should be in Jerusalem shortly, and that would make amends for all the fatigues of their journey. We shall stand there as servants; it is desirable to have a place in Jerusalem, though it be among those that stand by (Zec 3:7), though it be the door keeper's place, Ps 84:10. We have now got a resting-place for the ark, and where it is there will we be.
II. The praises of Jerusalem, as Ps 48:12.
1. It is the beautiful city, not only for situation, but for building. It is built into a city, the houses not scattered, but contiguous, and the streets fair and spacious. It is built uniform, compact together, the houses strengthening and supporting one another. Though the city was divided into the higher and lower town, yet the Jebusites being driven out, and it being entirely in the possession of God's people, it is said to be compact together. It was a type of the gospel-church, which is compact together in holy love and Christian communion, so that it is all as one city.
2. It is the holy city, Ps 122:4. It is the place where all Israel meet one another: Thither the tribes go up, from all parts of the country, as one man, under the character of the tribes of the Lord, in obedience to his command. It is the place appointed for their general rendezvous; and they come together, (1.) To receive instruction from God; they come to the testimony of Israel, to hear what God has to say to them and to consult his oracle. (2.) To ascribe the glory to God, to give thanks to the name of the Lord, which we have all reason to do, especially those that have the testimony of Israel among them. If God speak to us by his word, we have reason to answer him by our thanksgivings. See on what errand we go to public worship, to give thanks.
3. It is the royal city (Ps 122:5): There are set thrones of judgment. Therefore the people had reason to be in love with Jerusalem, because justice was administered there by a man after God's own heart. The civil interests of the people were as well secured as their ecclesiastical concerns; and very happy they were in their courts of judicature, which were erected in Jerusalem, as with us in Westminster Hall. Observe, What a goodly sight it was to see the testimony of Israel and the thrones of judgment such near neighbours, and they are good neighbours, which may greatly befriend one another. Let the testimony of Israel direct the thrones of judgment, and the thrones of judgment protect the testimony of Israel.
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Prayer for the Church
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为教会祷告
⁶ 你们要为耶路撒冷求平安。爱你的人必然兴旺。 ⁷ 愿你城内平安，愿你宫内兴旺。 ⁸ 因我弟兄和同伴的缘故，我要说：愿平安在你中间。 ⁹ 因耶和华我们神殿的缘故，我要为你求福。
在此，一、大卫呼吁别人向耶路撒冷祝愿，诗122:6-7。「你们要为耶路撒冷求平安」，为它的福祉，为它各样美善，特别为居民内部的合一，并使他们免受敌人侵扰。这是我们可以真心愿求的，使我们可以在它的平安中得享平安；这也是我们必须恳切祈求的，因为它是神的恩赐，并且他要人为此求问他。那些不能为耶路撒冷的平安做别的事的人，可以为它祷告，这比仅表明善意更进一步；这是领受怜悯的命定途径。福音教会的平安与福祉，特别是在我们本国，应当被我们每一个人恳切愿求和祷告。如今：1. 我们在此受鼓励为耶路撒冷的平安祷告：「爱你的人必然兴旺。」我们当为耶路撒冷求，不是出于习俗，也不是为着客套，而是出于爱神对人的治理、并人对神的敬拜这一原则；在寻求公众的福祉中，我们也寻求自己的福祉，因为神如此爱「锡安的门」，他也必爱一切爱这些门的人，所以他们不能不兴旺；至少他们的灵魂必因他们所热爱的圣礼而兴旺。2. 我们在此受指引如此祷告，并有了话语放在我们口中（诗122:7）：「愿你城内平安。」他教导我们求：（1）为一切的居民普遍地求——一切在城墙之内的人，从最小到最大。愿平安在你的保障中；愿它们永不被攻击，或即或被攻击，也永不被攻陷，而成为该城有效的保障。（2）特为君王和官长求：愿「兴旺」在那些掌舵、主导公众事务的大人物的「宫内」；因为他们若兴旺，公众便得福。贫穷人容易嫉妒宫殿的兴旺，但他们在此受教要为之祷告。
二、他决意无论别人怎样行，他都要证明自己是耶路撒冷忠信的朋友。1. 在他的祷告中：「我要说」，如今我看见众支派如此欢然前来「以色列的见证」之处，又见这事既定——耶路撒冷必为神记他名之处，如今「我要说：愿平安在你中间」。他并非说：「让别人为公众的平安祷告吧——祭司和先知，那是他们的本分；还有百姓，他们没有别的事做；我却要为之争战、为之治理。」不；「我也要为之祷告。」2. 在他的努力中，他要以努力配合他的祷告：「我要」尽我所能「为你求福」。凡在我们的活动范围之内能为公众利益而做的，我们都必须做，否则我们为之祷告便不真诚。如今或许有人会说：大卫如此为耶路撒冷的福祉费心，不算什么功劳；那是他自己的城，他家族的利益都寄托在其中。这话是真的；然而他声明，这并不是他如此关心耶路撒冷福祉的缘由，这乃是出于他热烈的关切：（1）对圣徒的相交：「是因我弟兄和同伴的缘故」，即为了一切真心以色列人的缘故——我看他们为我的弟兄（他如此称呼他们，代上28:2），他们又常常是在敬拜神中与我同行的伴侣，这就把我的心与他们系在一起。（2）对神的圣礼：他「爱慕他神的殿」（代上29:3）；他在公众敬拜中大有喜乐，为此缘故他愿为耶路撒冷的益处祷告。我们关切公众福祉，若是出于对神所设立的制度和对他忠心敬拜者的真诚之爱的结果，那才是正确的。
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Prayer for the Church
⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
⁷ Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
⁸ For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
⁹ Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
Here, I. David calls upon others to wish well to Jerusalem, Ps 122:6,7. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for the welfare of it, for all good to it, particularly for the uniting of the inhabitants among themselves and their preservation from the incursions of enemies. This we may truly desire, that in the peace thereof we may have peace; and this we must earnestly pray for, for it is the gift of God, and for it he will be enquired of. Those that can do nothing else for the peace of Jerusalem can pray for it, which is something more than showing their good-will; it is the appointed way of fetching in mercy. The peace and welfare of the gospel church, particularly in our land, is to be earnestly desired and prayed for by every one of us. Now, 1. We are here encouraged in our prayers for Jerusalem's peace: Those shall prosper that love thee. We must pray for Jerusalem, not out of custom, nor for fashion's sake, but out of a principle of love to God's government of man and man's worship of God; and, in seeking the public welfare, we seek our own, for so well does God love the gates of Zion that he will love all those that do love them, and therefore they cannot but prosper; at least their souls shall prosper by the ordinances they so dearly love. 2. We are here directed in our prayers for it and words are put into our mouths (Ps 122:7): Peace be within thy walls. He teaches us to pray, (1.) For all the inhabitants in general, all within the walls, from the least to the greatest. Peace be in thy fortifications; let them never be attacked, or, if they be, let them never be taken, but be an effectual security to the city. (2.) For the princes and rulers especially: Let prosperity be in the palaces of the great men that sit at the helm and have the direction of public affairs; for, if they prosper, it will be well for the public. The poorer sort are apt to envy the prosperity of the palaces, but they are here taught to pray for it.
II. He resolves that whatever others do he will approve himself a faithful friend to Jerusalem, 1. In his prayers: "I will now say, now I see the tribes so cheerfully resorting hither to the testimony of Israel, and the matter settled, that Jerusalem must be the place where God will record his name, now I will say, Peace be within thee." He did not say, "Let others pray for the public peace, the priests and the prophets, whose business it is, and the people, that have nothing else to do, and I will fight for it and rule for it." No; "I will pray for it too." 2. In his endeavours, with which he will second his prayers: "I will, to the utmost of my power, seek thy good." Whatever lies within the sphere of our activity to do for the public good we must do it, else we are not sincere in praying for it. Now it might be said, No thanks to David to be so solicitous for the welfare of Jerusalem; it was his own city, and the interests of his family were lodged in it. This is true; yet he professes that this was not the reason why he was in such care for the welfare of Jerusalem, but it proceeded from the warm regard he had, (1.) To the communion of saints: It is for my brethren and companions' sakes, that is, for the sake of all true-hearted Israelites, whom I look upon as my brethren (so he called them, 1Ch 28:2) and who have often been my companions in the worship of God, which has knit my heart to them. (2.) To the ordinances of God: He had set his affections to the house of his God (1Ch 29:3); he took a great pleasure in public worship, and for that reason would pray for the good of Jerusalem. Then our concern for the public welfare is right when it is the effect of a sincere love to God's institutions and his faithful worshippers.
本篇似是大卫为以色列人在三个大节期上耶路撒冷敬拜之用而作。正是在大卫年间,耶路撒冷首次被选为神立他名的城。因这是新事,故此手段(除其他方法外)被用来使百姓爱慕耶路撒冷为圣城,尽管它前一日还在耶布斯人手中。请留意:一、他们上耶路撒冷所当有的喜乐(诗122:1,2);二、他们对耶路撒冷所当有的高度尊重(诗122:3-5);三、他们对耶路撒冷所当有的关切,并为他们福祉所当献的祷告(诗122:6-9)。我们唱这首诗时当注目于福音教会——她被称为「在上的耶路撒冷」。