The Scepter Of Wickedness

Psalm 125: 3

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous ...

This Psalm is a "Song of Ascents," which was sung by the people as they ascended the mount where the Temple stood. They sang on their way to worship. 

They sang that the "scepter of wickedness," the kingly rule over the land that would make decrees against the Lord's Law, would not "rest" there permanently.

So that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong.

When the laws of the land allow for license to do things that are not right, then even righteous people will tend to look at what's legal rather than what's right, and end up doing wrong. 

O my Father, I pray for the peace of Your city, Jerusalem! I pray that the rulership of evil men who desire to take over Your holy city to defile it would never take any hold there upon that place, but only transiently pass through briefly, if at all; that Your Name, that You have set there, may be settled and rest in that land in peace. 

O my Lord, I desire to see Your glory there, in Jerusalem, the center of the World, where You shall reign. One day, the Day will come, when I shall see with my own eyes, Your beautiful dwelling that You have chosen on this Earth. 

Please allow Your protection to be upon that land, that it not ever be handed over to Your enemies! Allow this city to have the glory and standing it once had under King David and King Solomon, and more! Let the beauty of Your dwelling place shine through!

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!