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Psalm 129:1

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

All my life enemies have attacked me. Say it again, Israel.

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What would have happened to us if the Lord had not been on our side? Tell us about it, Israel.

The Lord said, “I loved Israel when he was a child, and I called my son out of Egypt.

“Jeremiah, go and speak to the people of Jerusalem. Tell them that this is what the Lord says: “‘At the time you were a young nation, you were faithful to me. You followed me like a young bride. You followed me through the desert, through a land that had never been used for farmland.

You worked hard all your life learning magic and spells. So start using that magic. Maybe those spells will help you. Maybe you will be able to frighten someone.

If it is not the Lord who builds a house, the builders are wasting their time. If it is not the Lord who watches over the city, the guards are wasting their time.

It will be like a dream when the Lord comes back with the captives of Zion.

I was happy when the people said, “Let us go to the Lord’s Temple.”

I was in trouble. I called to the Lord for help, and he answered me!

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion. They will never be shaken. They will continue forever.

When the Israelites went out to fight, they always lost. They lost because the Lord was not on their side. He had already warned them that they would lose if they served the gods of the people living around them. The Israelites suffered very much.

So Pharaoh gave this command to his own people: “If the Hebrew women give birth to a baby girl, let it live. But if they have a baby boy, you must throw it into the Nile River.”

They became prostitutes in Egypt while they were still young girls. That’s where they first let men touch and handle their young breasts.

Judah suffered very much, and then she was taken into captivity. She lives among other nations but has found no rest. The people who chased her caught her where there was no way out.

“Judah, you felt safe, but I warned you. I warned you, but you refused to listen. You have lived like this from the time you were young. And from the time you were young, you have not obeyed me, Judah.

Lord, I look up and pray to you. You sit as King in heaven.

I look up to the hills, but where will my help really come from?

I have been sick and weak since I was young. I have suffered your anger, and I am helpless.

The Lord was angry with the Israelites, so he allowed King Cushan Rishathaim of Aram Naharaim to defeat the Israelites and to rule over them. The Israelites were under that king’s rule for eight years.

There I will give her vineyards. I will give her Achor Valley as a doorway of hope. Then she will answer as she did when she came out of the land of Egypt.”

There were no blacksmiths in Israel. The Philistines would not allow them because they were afraid the Israelites would make iron swords and spears.

Great blessings belong to those who fear and respect the Lord and live the way he wants.

The Egyptians decided to make life hard for the Israelites, so they put slave masters over the people. These masters forced the Israelites to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses for the king. The king used these cities to store grain and other things.




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