Psalm 129–131

Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

¹Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,

Let Israel now say,

²Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:

Yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed upon my back;

They made long their furrows.

⁴Jehovah is righteous:

He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them be put to shame and turned backward,

All they that hate Zion.

⁶Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,

Which withereth before it groweth up;

⁷Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,

Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

⁸Neither do they that go by say,

The blessing of Jehovah be upon you;

We bless you in the name of Jehovah.

Psalm 130

A Song of Ascents.

¹Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.

²Lord, hear my voice:

Let thine ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplications.

³If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

⁴But there is forgiveness with thee,

That thou mayest be feared.

⁵I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait,

And in his word do I hope.

⁶My soul waiteth for the Lord

More than watchmen wait for the morning;

Yea, more than watchmen for the morning.

⁷O Israel, hope in Jehovah;

For with Jehovah there is lovingkindness,

And with him is plenteous redemption.

⁸And he will redeem Israel

From all his iniquities.

Psalm 131

A Song of Ascents; of David.

¹Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty;

Neither do I exercise myself in great matters,

Or in things too wonderful for me.

²Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul;

Like a weaned child with his mother,

Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

³O Israel, hope in Jehovah

From this time forth and for evermore.