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Psalm 129

¹Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
²Many a time 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 hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
⁵Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
⁶Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
⁷Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
⁸Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

Psalm 130

¹Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
²Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
³If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
⁴But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
⁵I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
⁶My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
⁷Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
⁸And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

2Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
²A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
³A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
⁴The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
⁵Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
⁶Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
⁷They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
⁸Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
⁹They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
¹⁰The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
¹¹And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

¹²Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
¹³Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
¹⁴Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
¹⁵Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
¹⁶For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
¹⁷For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
¹⁸And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
¹⁹We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
²⁰Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
²¹For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.