Prayers, Songs, Praises: Psalm 130

Awaiting Redemption

A song of ascents.

130:1 Out of the depths I call to you, Lord!

2 Lord, listen to my voice;

let your ears be attentive
to my cry for help.

3 Lord, if you kept an account of iniquities,

Lord, who could stand?

4 But with you there is forgiveness,

so that you may be revered.

5 I wait for the Lord; I wait

and put my hope in his word.

6 I wait for the Lord

more than watchmen for the morning—
more than watchmen for the morning.

7 Israel, put your hope in the Lord.

For there is faithful love with the Lord,
and with him is redemption in abundance.

8 And he will redeem Israel

from all its iniquities.

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Prayers, Songs, Praises: Psalm 129

Protection of the Oppressed

A song of ascents.

129:1 Since my youth they have often attacked me—

let Israel say—

2 since my youth they have often attacked me,

but they have not prevailed against me.

3 Plowmen plowed over my back;

they made their furrows long.

4 The Lord is righteous;

he has cut the ropes of the wicked.

5 Let all who hate Zion

be driven back in disgrace.

6 Let them be like grass on the rooftops,

which withers before it grows up

7 and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper

or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.

8 Then none who pass by will say,

“May the Lord’s blessing be on you.
We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

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