Psalms Chapter 122 verse 3 Holy Bible
Jerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact together;
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O Jerusalem, you are like a town which is well joined together;
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Jerusalem, which art built as a city that is compact together,
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Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
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Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;
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Jerusalem -- the builded one -- `Is' as a city that is joined to itself together.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together; rather, Jerusalem that art builded. The primary reference is probably to the compact shape and look of the ancient city, which, as Josephus says, was "one and entire," with no straggling suburbs, shut in on the north by a wall, and on the three other sides both by walls and by deep, rocky valleys. But the material "compactness" was perhaps taken to symbolize the close internal union of the inhabitants one with another, whereby they were all knit together into one Church and people.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) This verse is somewhat perplexing. It is explained to refer either to the rebuilding of the city and reuniting of the parts which had been disconnected in the destruction, or, which is far better (see Introduction), is taken as a rustic's impression on first seeing a compact city after being accustomed to straggling villages. The astonishment of Virgil's shepherd is aptly compared: "Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Melibaee putavi, Stultus ego, huic nostrae similem." But a far more satisfactory meaning is suggested by the LXX. They (comp. Symmachus) take the word rendered compact as a noun, meaning union. The verse then may run: Jerusalem, the (one) built like a city, union is in it together, i.e., it is the rallying point of all the tribes. (See next verse.)
