Psalms 132:1

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

“Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

I will give one tribe to his son, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for myself to put my name there.

But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.

You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.