Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears the Lord

128 A Song of mAscents.

1  fBlessed is everyone who fears the Lord,

who gwalks in his ways!

2  You hshall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;

you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

3  Your wife will be like ia fruitful vine

within your house;

your children will be like jolive shoots

around your table.

4  Behold, thus shall the man be blessed

who fears the Lord.

5  kThe Lord bless you lfrom Zion!

May you see mthe prosperity of Jerusalem

all the days of your life!

6  May you see your nchildren’s children!

oPeace be upon Israel!

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

129 A Song of mAscents.

1  “Greatly1 have they pafflicted me qfrom my youth”—

rlet Israel now say—

2  “Greatly have they pafflicted me qfrom my youth,

syet they have not prevailed against me.

3  tThe plowers plowed uupon my back;

they made long their furrows.”

4  The Lord is righteous;

he has cut vthe cords of the wicked.

5  May all who hate Zion

be wput to shame and turned backward!

6  Let them be like xthe grass on the housetops,

which ywithers before it grows up,

7  with which the reaper does not fill his hand

nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

8  nor do those who pass by say,

a“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!

We bbless you in the name of the Lord!”

My Soul Waits for the Lord

130 A Song of mAscents.

1  Out of cthe depths I cry to you, O Lord!

2  O Lord, hear my voice!

dLet your ears be attentive

to ethe voice of my pleas for mercy!

3  If you, O Lord, should fmark iniquities,

O Lord, who could gstand?

4  But with you there is hforgiveness,

ithat you may be feared.

5  I jwait for the Lord, kmy soul waits,

and lin his word I hope;

6  my soul mwaits for the Lord

more than nwatchmen for othe morning,

more than watchmen for the morning.

7  O Israel, phope in the Lord!

For qwith the Lord there is steadfast love,

and with him is plentiful redemption.

8  And he will rredeem Israel

from all his iniquities.