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Psalm 129

¹“Often have they attacked me from my youth” —let Israel now say—

²“often have they attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.”

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 that withers before it grows up,

⁷with which reapers do not fill their hands or binders of sheaves their arms,

⁸while those who pass by do not say, “The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!”

²²I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. ²³And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. ²⁴The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. ²⁵Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. ²⁶People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations. ²⁷But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

22Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb ²through the middle of the street of the city. On either side of the river is the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, producing its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. ³Nothing accursed will be found there any more. But the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him; ⁴they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ⁵And there will be no more night; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.