Jerusalem

Jerusalem

There all people of the world live together in peace
Peace is with Jerusalem
There all people in this city live together in peace.
Peace in all the world

There are two houses on Mount Zion
They are called the Temple and Al-Aqsa1
And there in the valley
arises the source of the Gihon
(the steps descending to the Gihon Spring)2
And it provides water to both houses

But they defile and they plunder
and then they pray
The one at the Western Wall,3
the other turned to the East4
After that, just how can God hear
the requests of a person, the requests of a person

Chorus
Jerusalem, city of peace
My Jerusalem, city of peace5
Praise God! Praise the Lord!6

Many pilgrims would come to Mount Moriah7
The one praises God on the Temple Mount8
The others would come from afar in the Aliya9
Together they were engrossed in prayer

But they did not want to divide it
and they divided the citiy
The one at the Western Wall
The other turned to the East
They just destroy God’s word
through human hands, human hands

Chorus
Jerusalem, city of peace
of peace, of peace, of peace
My Jerusalem, my beloved

There all the people of the world live together in peace.
Peace is with Jerusalem
There all the people in this city live together in peace.
Peace in all the world

Chorus
Jerusalem, city of peace
My Jerusalem
Praise the Lord! Praise God!

Peace to you, O Palestine
Peace to you, peace to you
Peace to you, O Israel
Navel of the world10
City of peace, Jerusalem

• 1. Ha-Mikdash is the Hebrew word for temple; Al-Aqsa is a mosque located on the southern edge of the temple mount. It is the third holiest site in Islam, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Mosque
• 2. the Gihon Springs were the major source of water for the original city of David. It is located on the eastern slope of the city in the Kidron Valley (the Arabic equivalent name is in parentheses)
• 3. sometimes called the Wailing Wall, it is a remnant of the ancient wall that surrounded the Jewish Temple's courtyard
• 4. Five times a day, Muslims are to pray facing Mecca
• 5. 'ir shalom (Hebrew) and baldat al-shalim (Arabic) are equivalents
• 6. Al-hamdu-lilah, Halleluja - Arabic and Hebrew equivalents – Hallelujah is a loan word that has been incorporated into the English language (= the Greek form, Alleluia)
• 7. the hill upon which Solomon built the first Temple
• 8. “Noble Sanctuary”; term for the Temple Mount where the Jewish temple once stood and where the Dome of the Rock now stands
• 9. term used for the immigration of the Jews into Israel
• 10. the ancient belief that Jerusalem was the center of the world