Psalms 128-135

Psalm 128

¹A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!

²For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours.

³Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

⁴In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.

⁵May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life,

⁶that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 129

¹A song of ascents. Many 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.”

Psalm 130

¹A song of ascents. Out 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.

Psalm 131

¹A song of ascents. Of David. My 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.

Psalm 132

¹A song of ascents. O LORD, remember on behalf of David all the hardships he endured,

²how he swore an oath to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

³“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,

⁴I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

⁵until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

⁶We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.

⁷Let us go to His dwelling place; let us worship at His footstool.

⁸Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.

⁹May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.

¹⁰For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.

¹¹The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.

¹²If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”

¹³For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

¹⁴“This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.

¹⁵I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.

¹⁶I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints will sing out in joy.

¹⁷There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

¹⁸I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

Psalm 133

¹A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

²It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron’s beard over the collar of his robes.

³It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.

Psalm 134

¹A song of ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!

²Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!

³May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

Psalm 135

¹Hallelujah! Praise the name of the LORD. Give praise, O servants of the LORD,

²who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God.

³Hallelujah, for the LORD is good; sing praises to His name, for it is lovely.

⁴For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

⁵For I know that the LORD is great; our Lord is above all gods.

⁶The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths.

⁷He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

⁸He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, of both man and beast.

⁹He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

¹⁰He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

¹¹Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.

¹²He gave their land as an inheritance, as a heritage to His people Israel.

¹³Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your renown, O LORD, through all generations.

¹⁴For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.

¹⁵The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

¹⁶They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;

¹⁷they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.

¹⁸Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

¹⁹O house of Israel, bless the LORD; O house of Aaron, bless the LORD;

²⁰O house of Levi, bless the LORD; you who fear the LORD, bless the LORD!

²¹Blessed be the LORD from Zion— He who dwells in Jerusalem. Hallelujah!