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Psalm 128
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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A Song of degrees.
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2For thou shalt
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4Behold, that thus shall the
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6Yea, thou shalt
The Blessed Fear of the LORD
A song of ascents.
1Blessed are all who fear the LORD,who walk in His ways! 2For when you eat the fruit of your labor,blessings and prosperity will be yours. 3Your wife will be like a fruitful vineflourishing within your house,your sons like olive shootssitting around your table. 4In this way indeed shall blessing cometo the man who fears the LORD.
5May the LORD bless you from Zion,that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalemall the days of your life, 6that you may seeyour children’s children.Peace be upon Israel!
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