Psalms 122 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

CXXII. The Glory of the Temple.

Psalms 122:3. The Psalmist refers probably to the ideal Jerusalem. Every true Jew was in sentiment a loyal burgher of Jerusalem. Jerusalem was like Mecca to the Mohammedan or Rome to the Roman Catholic; therefore the tribes went up to it (cf. Psalms 87).

Psalms 122:5. are: read, were (mg.). The poet recalls the ancient glories of David's time.