Psalm 129–131

PSALM 129

Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion’s Enemies.

A Song of Ascents.

¹“¹Many times they have ^2apersecuted me from my ^byouth up,”

^cLet Israel now say,

²“¹Many times they have ²persecuted me from my youth up;

Yet they have ^anot prevailed against me.

³“The plowers plowed upon my back;

They lengthened their furrows.”

⁴The Lord ^ais righteous;

He has cut in two the ^bcords of the wicked.

⁵May all who ^ahate Zion

Be ^bput to shame and turned backward;

⁶Let them be like ^agrass upon the housetops,

Which withers before it ¹grows up;

⁷With which the reaper does not fill his ¹hand,

Or the binder of sheaves his ^abosom;

⁸Nor do those who pass by say,

“The ^ablessing of the Lord be upon you;

We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

PSALM 130

Hope in the Lord’s Forgiving Love.

A Song of Ascents.

¹Out of the ^adepths I have cried to You, O Lord.

²Lord, ^ahear my voice!

Let ^bYour ears be attentive

To the ^cvoice of my supplications.

³If You, ¹Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could ^astand?

⁴But there is ^aforgiveness with You,

That You may be ^bfeared.

⁵I wait for the Lord, my ^asoul does wait,

And ^1bin His word do I hope.

⁶My soul waits for the Lord

More than the watchmen ^afor the morning;

Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.

⁷O Israel, ^ahope in the Lord;

For with the Lord there is ^blovingkindness,

And with Him is ^cabundant redemption.

⁸And He will ^aredeem Israel

From all his iniquities.

PSALM 131

Childlike Trust in the Lord.

A Song of Ascents, of David.

¹O Lord, my heart is not ^aproud, nor my eyes ^1bhaughty;

Nor do I ²involve myself in ^cgreat matters,

Or in things ^dtoo ³difficult for me.

²Surely I have ^acomposed and quieted my soul;

Like a weaned ^bchild rests ¹against his mother,

My soul is like a weaned child within me.

³O Israel, ^ahope in the Lord

^bFrom this time forth and forever.