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
Webster Bible

Psalms 129

1A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. 3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. 4The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. 5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6Let them be as the grass [upon] the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up: 7With which the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom. 8Neither do they who go by, say, The blessing of the LORD [be] upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

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