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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.

1The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
²And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
³Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
⁴But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Benhadad.
⁵I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.
¹³Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
¹⁴But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:
¹⁵And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.

2Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
²But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
³And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

¹¹But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
¹²For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
¹³For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
¹⁴And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
¹⁵But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
¹⁶To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
¹⁷Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
¹⁸Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
¹⁹But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.
²⁰Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
²¹Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
²²And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
²³But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
²⁴And they glorified God in me.