Psalms 129-130 - ESV Online

PSALMS 129-130

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

A Song of Ascents.
129:1

“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”—

let Israel now say— 2

“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,

yet they have not prevailed against me. 3

The plowers plowed upon my back;

they made long their furrows.” 4

The Lord is righteous;

he has cut the cords of the wicked. 5

May all who hate Zion

be put to shame and turned backward! 6

Let them be like the grass on the housetops,

which withers before it grows up, 7

with which the reaper does not fill his hand

nor the binder of sheaves his arms, 8

nor do those who pass by say,

“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!

We bless you in the name of the Lord!” My Soul Waits for the Lord

A Song of Ascents.
130:1

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord! 2

O Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
3

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand? 4

But with you there is forgiveness,

that you may be feared.
5

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

and in his word I hope; 6

my soul waits for the Lord

more than watchmen for the morning,

more than watchmen for the morning.
7

O Israel, hope in the Lord!

For with the Lord there is steadfast love,

and with him is plentiful redemption. 8

And he will redeem Israel

from all his iniquities.

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