Psalms 122:9

Because of the house of the Lord, our God, the Temple, or Tabernacle, as the center of Israel's worship, the symbol of the true religion over against those without, I will seek thy good, for the welfare of the Jewish Church was largely dependent upon the safety and prosperity of the city of the Sanctuary. Even so the spiritual welfare and happiness of all believers is bound up with the fortunes of the Church, for which reason this special petition for peace is included in the General Prayer read in many of our churches every Sunday.