Psalms 128-130

Psalm 128

¹A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways.

²For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

³Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive shoots around your table.

⁴Behold, this is how the man who fears the LORD is blessed.

⁵May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

⁶Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm 129

¹A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:

²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

⁴The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

⁸Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”

Psalm 130

¹A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.

²Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

³If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

⁴But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

⁵I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

⁶My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

⁷Israel, hope in the LORD, for there is loving kindness with the LORD. Abundant redemption is with him.

⁸He will redeem Israel from all their sins.