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Sunday, May 18th, 2025
the Fifth Sunday after Easter
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Psalms 129

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They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

A Song of (a)Ascents.

1 "Greatly[a] have they (b)afflicted me (c)from my youth"—
    (d)let Israel now say—
2 "Greatly have they (e)afflicted me (f)from my youth,
    (g)yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 (h)The plowers plowed (i)upon my back;
    they made long their furrows."
4 The Lord is righteous;
    he has cut (j)the cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion
    be (k)put to shame and turned backward!
6 Let them be like (l)the grass on the housetops,
    which (m)withers before it grows up,
7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand
    nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
8 nor do those who pass by say,
    (n)"The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
    We (o)bless you in the name of the Lord!"

 
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