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Psalm 129:1

New English Translation

“Since my youth they have often attacked me,” let Israel say.

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In my distress I cried out to the Lord and he answered me.

I look up toward the hills. From where does my help come?

I was glad because they said to me, “We will go to the Lord’s temple.”

I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven.

“If the Lord had not been on our side” – let Israel say this! –

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion; it cannot be upended and will endure forever.

When the Lord restored the well-being of Zion, we thought we were dreaming.

If the Lord does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the Lord does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.

How blessed is every one of the Lord’s loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands!

I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.

So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful – maybe you will scare away disaster.

“Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem: ‘This is what the Lord says: “I have fond memories of you, how devoted you were to me in your early years. I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.

While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. Indeed, you have never paid attention to me.

Judah has departed into exile under affliction and harsh oppression. She lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in narrow straits. ד (Dalet)

They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers fondled their virgin nipples there.

When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, and I summoned my son out of Egypt.

From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the “Valley of Trouble” into an “Opportunity for Hope.” There she will sing as she did when she was young, when she came up from the land of Egypt.

Whenever they went out to fight, the Lord did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.

The Lord was furious with Israel and turned them over to King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects for eight years.

A blacksmith could not be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, “This will prevent the Hebrews from making swords and spears.”




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