Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Geneva Bible 1599

Psalms 125

1A song of degrees. They that trust in the Lord, shalbe as mount Zion, which can not be remooued, but remaineth for euer. 2As the mountaines are about Ierusalem: so is the Lord about his people from henceforth and for euer. 3For the rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous, least the righteous put forth their hand vnto wickednes. 4Doe well, O Lord, vnto those that be good and true in their hearts. 5But these that turne aside by their crooked wayes, them shall the Lord leade with the workers of iniquitie: but peace shalbe vpon Israel.

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