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      4. Bring back, O Lord, our captives,

      like streams in the south.

      5. Those who sow in tears,

      shall reap rejoicing.

      6. They trudged along weeping,

      sowing their seed,

      but they shall come skipping for joy,

      carrying their sheaves.

      Psalm 126

      1. Unless the Lord build the house,

      the builders have labored in vain.

      Unless the Lord keep watch

      over the city,

      in vain has the guard kept watch.

      2. It is vain for you to rise early.

      Rise up after you are rested,

      you who eat the bread of grief,

      when sleep is granted to his beloved.

      3. Behold the inheritance of the Lord,

      children, the reward of the fruit

      of the womb.

      4. As arrows in the hand

      of a mighty warrior,

      so are the children of those

      who were expelled.

      5. Blessed whoever shall satisfy

      his desire with them!

      They shall not be put to shame,

      when they speak to their enemies

      in the gateways.

      Psalm 127

      1. Blessed are all who revere the Lord,

      who walk in his ways.

      2. You shall eat the fruit of your labors,

      blessed are you, and it shall be well

      with you.

      3. Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine

      attached to the sides of your house.

      Your children shall be

      as young olive plants,

      encircling your table.

      4. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed,

      who reveres the Lord.

      5. May the Lord bless you out of Zion,

      and may you see the prosperity

      of Jerusalem,

      all the days of your life.

      6. And may you see

      your children’s children.

      Peace upon Israel.

      Psalm 129

      1. Out of the depths,

      have I cried to you, O Lord.

      2. O Lord, hearken to my voice,

      let your ears be attentive

      to the sound of my supplication.

      3. If you, O Lord,

      should mark iniquities,

      O Lord, who shall be left standing?

      4. For there is propitiation with you.

      5. For the sake of your name I have waited O Lord;

      my soul has waited for your word.

      6. My soul has placed its hope

      in the Lord,

      from the morning watch until night.

      7. Let Israel hope in the Lord,

      for with the Lord there is mercy,

      and bountiful redemption.

      8. And he himself will redeem Israel

      from all its iniquities.

      Psalm 130

      1. O Lord, my heart is not haughty,

      neither are my eyes lofty.

      Neither have I trafficked

      in great matters,

      or in things too marvelous for me.

      2. If I had not been humble,

      but exalted my soul

      like a weaned child

      from its mother’s breast,

      how you would have repaid my soul!

      3. Let Israel hope in the Lord,

      henceforth and forever more.

      Psalm 131

      1. O Lord, remember David,

      and all his meekness,

      2. how he swore to the Lord,

      made a vow to the God of Jacob:

      3. “I will not enter my own house,

      nor lay down to rest on my bed,

      4. nor give sleep to my eyes,

      and slumber to my eyelids,

      nor rest to my temples,

      5. until I find a place for the Lord,

      a dwelling for the God of Jacob.”

      6. Behold we heard of it in Ephrata,

      we found it in the fields of the woods.

      7. Let us enter into his tabernacles;

      let us worship at the place

      where his feet stood.

      8. Arise, O Lord, and come

      into your rest,

      you and the ark of your holiness.

      9. Your priests shall clothe themselves with righteousness,

      and your holy ones shall exult with joy.

      10. For the sake of your servant David,

      turn not your face away from your anointed.

      11. The Lord has sworn

      in truth to David,

      and will not annul it:

      “From the fruit of your loins,

      I will set one on your throne;

      12. If your children keep my covenant,

      and these my testimonies which I shall teach them,

      their children also shall sit

      upon your throne.

      13. For the Lord has elected Zion,

      has chosen her as a dwelling for himself.

      14. This is my resting place forever,

      here will I dwell, for I have chosen her.

      15. I will abundantly bless her provision;

      I will satisfy her poor with bread.

      16. I shall clothe her priests

      with salvation,

      and her saints shall exceedingly

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