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Psalm 130

A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship.

130 I say that my enemies have afflicted me ever since I was young.

Now I ask you, my fellow Israelites, to repeat those same words:

2 “Our enemies have afflicted us since our nation began,

but they have not defeated us!

3 Our enemies struck us with whips that cut into our backs

as a farmer uses a plow to cuts deep furrows into the ground.”

4 But Yahweh is righteous,

and he has freed us from being slaves to wicked people.

5 I wish that they may all be shamed because we will defeat them—all of Jerusalem’s enemies.

6 I hope that they may be of no value, like grass that grows on the roofs of houses,

that dries up and does not grow tall;

7 no one wants to cut it and tie it up as bundles and carry it away.

8 People who pass by and see men harvesting grain usually greet them by saying to them,

“We wish that Yahweh may bless you!”

But this will not happen to the enemies of Israel.

We, acting as Yahweh’s representatives, bless you, our fellow Israelites!

A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship.

130 Yahweh, I have great troubles, so I call out to you.

2 Yahweh, hear me

while I call out to you to have mercy on me!

3 Yahweh, if you kept a record of the sins that we have committed,

not one of us would escape from being condemned and punished!

4 But you forgive us,

with the result that we have an awesome respect for you.

5 Yahweh has said that he would help me;

I trust what he said, and I wait eagerly for him to do that.

6 I wait for Yahweh to help me

more than watchmen wait for the morning to come;

yes, I wait more eagerly than they do!

7 You, my fellow Israelites, confidently expect that Yahweh will bless us.

He will bless us because he has mercy on us,

and he is very willing to save us.

8 It is he who will save us Israelite people from being punished for all the sins that we have committed.