They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

A Song of Ascents.

¹“Greatly1 have they afflicted me from my youth”—

let Israel now say—

²“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,

yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed upon my back;

they made long their furrows.”

⁴The Lord is righteous;

he has cut the cords of the wicked.

⁵May all who hate Zion

be put to shame and turned backward!

⁶Let them be like the grass on the housetops,

which withers before it grows up,

⁷with which the reaper does not fill his hand

nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

⁸nor do those who pass by say,

“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!

We bless you in the name of the Lord!”

My Soul Waits for the Lord

A Song of Ascents.

¹Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

²O Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

³If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

⁴But with you there is forgiveness,

that you may be feared.

⁵I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

and in his word I hope;

⁶my soul waits for the Lord

more than watchmen for the morning,

more than watchmen for the morning.

⁷O Israel, hope in the Lord!

For with the Lord there is steadfast love,

and with him is plentiful redemption.

⁸And he will redeem Israel

from all his iniquities.

I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

¹O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;

my eyes are not raised too high;

I do not occupy myself with things

too great and too marvelous for me.

²But I have calmed and quieted my soul,

like a weaned child with its mother;

like a weaned child is my soul within me.

³O Israel, hope in the Lord

from this time forth and forevermore.