Translations
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
Yerushalayim is built up like a city knit together as one,
Jerusalem is built up as a city bound together in perfect unity,
Jerusalem is built up as a city united together,
Footnotes
Chubrah, from the root chavar, means to join, bind, or knit—used elsewhere of the tabernacle curtains woven together (Exodus 26:3) and of companions bound in fellowship. The image is simultaneously physical (the city's dense, tightly packed hilltop architecture) and covenantal (a people drawn into one body by shared worship at one altar). The phrase lah yachdav ("to itself, as one") intensifies the unity. This verse carries a typological freight pointing forward to the New Jerusalem as the gathered, unified community of the redeemed (Revelation 21:2). F.O.G. renders the tactile, architectural image; F.O.G.M. draws out the covenantal dimension of unity.

