Psalm 128 - 129

A Song of Ascents.

How blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh,

Who walks in His ways.

When you shall eat of the fruit of the labor of your hands,

How blessed will you be and how well will it be for you.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine

In the innermost parts of your house,

Your children like olive plants

All around your table.

Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed

Who fears Yahweh.

May Yahweh bless you from Zion,

That you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Indeed, may you see your children’s children.

Peace be upon Israel!

A Song of Ascents.

“Many times they have assailed me from my youth up,”

Let Israel now say,

“Many times they have assailed me from my youth up;

Yet they have not prevailed against me.

The plowers plowed upon my back;

They lengthened their furrows.”

Yahweh is righteous;

He has cut up the cords of the wicked.

Let all who hate Zion

Be put to shame and turned backward;

Let them be like grass upon the rooftops,

Which dries up before it grows up;

With which the reaper does not fill his hand,

Nor the binder of sheaves the fold of his garment;

And those who pass by will not say,

“The blessing of Yahweh be upon you;

We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”