Psalm 128–130

Psalm 128

A song for going up to worship. 

¹Blessed are all who fear the Lord 

and live his way. 

²You will certainly eat what your own hands have provided. 

Blessings to you! 

May things go well for you! 

³Your wife will be like a fruitful vine inside your home. 

Your children will be like young olive trees around your table. 

⁴This is how the Lord will bless the person who fears him. 

⁵May the Lord bless you from Zion 

so that you may see Jerusalem prospering 

all the days of your life. 

⁶May you live to see your children’s children. 

Let there be peace in Israel! 

Psalm 129

A song for going up to worship. 

¹“From the time I was young, people have attacked me …” 

(Israel should repeat this.) 

²“From the time I was young, people have attacked me, 

but they have never overpowered me. 

³They have plowed my back ⸤like farmers plow fields⸥. 

They made long slashes ⸤like furrows⸥.” 

⁴The Lord is righteous. 

He has cut me loose 

from the ropes that wicked people tied around me. 

⁵Put to shame all those who hate Zion. 

Force them to retreat. 

⁶Make them be like grass on a roof, 

like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk. 

⁷It will never fill the barns of those who harvest 

or the arms of those who gather bundles. 

⁸Those who pass by will never say ⸤to them⸥, 

“May you be blessed by the Lord” 

or “We bless you in the name of the Lord.” 

Psalm 130

A song for going up to worship. 

¹O Lord, out of the depths I call to you. 

²O Lord, hear my voice. 

Let your ears be open to my pleas for mercy. 

³O Lord, who would be able to stand 

if you kept a record of sins? 

⁴But with you there is forgiveness 

so that you can be feared. 

⁵I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, 

and with hope I wait for his word. 

⁶My soul waits for the Lord 

more than those who watch for the morning, 

more than those who watch for the morning. 

⁷O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, 

because with the Lord there is mercy 

and with him there is unlimited forgiveness. 

⁸He will rescue Israel from all its sins.