Psalms 129-131

1Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— let Israel now declare—

2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

3The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

4The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.

5May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

6May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

7unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.

8May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”

1Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!

2O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

4But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.

5I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.

6My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning— more than watchmen wait for the morning.

7O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

8And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.

1My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty 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, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.