Psalm 129-131

American Standard Version

^[a]129 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,
Let Israel now say,
^2 [b]Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
³ The plowers plowed upon my back;
They made long their furrows.
⁴ Jehovah is righteous:
He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
⁵ Let them be put to shame and turned backward,
All they that hate Zion.
⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,
Which withereth before it ^[c]groweth up;
⁷ Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,
Nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom:
⁸ Neither do they that go by say,
The blessing of Jehovah be upon you;
We bless you in the name of Jehovah.

130 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.
² Lord, hear my voice:
Let thine ears be attentive
To the voice of my supplications.
³ If thou, ^[d]Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
⁴ But there is forgiveness with thee,
That thou mayest be feared.
⁵ I wait for Jehovah, my soul doth wait,
And in his word do I hope.
⁶ My soul waiteth for the Lord
More than watchmen wait for the morning;
Yea, more than watchmen for the morning.
⁷ O Israel, hope in Jehovah;
For with Jehovah there is lovingkindness,
And with him is plenteous redemption.
⁸ And he will redeem Israel
From all his iniquities.

131 Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty;
Neither do I ^[e]exercise myself in great matters,
Or in things too wonderful for me.
² Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul;
Like a weaned child with his mother,
Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
³ O Israel, hope in Jehovah
From this time forth and for evermore.