Prayers, Songs, Praises: Psalm 125

Israel’s Stability

A song of ascents.

125:1 Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion.
It cannot be shaken; it remains forever.

2 The mountains surround Jerusalem
and the Lord surrounds his people,
both now and forever.

3 The scepter of the wicked will not remain
over the land allotted to the righteous,
so that the righteous will not apply their hands to injustice.

4 Do what is good, Lord, to the good,
to those whose hearts are upright.

5 But as for those who turn aside to crooked ways,
the Lord will banish them with the evildoers.
Peace be with Israel.

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Prayers, Songs, Praises: Psalm 124

The Lord Is on Our Side

A song of ascents. Of David.

124:1 If the Lord had not been on our side—

let Israel say—

2 if the Lord had not been on our side

when people attacked us,

3 then they would have swallowed us alive

in their burning anger against us.

4 Then the water would have engulfed us;

the torrent would have swept over us;

5 the raging water would have swept over us.

6 Blessed be the Lord,

who has not let us be ripped apart by their teeth.

7 We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net;

the net is torn, and we have escaped.

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,

the Maker of heaven and earth.

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