Translations
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
Our feet are standing within your gates, O Yerushalayim!
And now our feet stand firm within your gates, O Jerusalem!
Our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem.
Footnotes
Omadot hayu— a participial form paired with the past tense of hayah—creates a vivid past-continuous sense: "our feet were standing," as if the poet pictures the moment of arrival being frozen in time. Some read it as a shout of present arrival: the feet that longed to come are now actually here. Sha'ar ("gate") in antiquity was not merely an entrance but the civic and judicial heart of the city—to stand in Jerusalem's gates was to enter the full life of the covenant community. F.O.G. captures the geographic immediacy of arriving presence; F.O.G.M. draws out the note of fulfilment and firm standing.

