Psalm
129 Prayed
Praising Jesus for his victory on the cross
“They
have greatly oppressed me from my youth.”
you
could say from the cross, Lord Jesus —
“They
have greatly oppressed me from my youth,
but
they have not gained the victory over
me.
Ploughmen
have ploughed my back
and
made their furrows long.
I offered my back to those who beat me,
my
cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
I did not hide my face
from
mocking and spitting.”
For
Pilate took you and had you flogged.
The
soldiers twisted together a crown of
thorns
and
put it on your head.
They
clothed you in a purple robe
and
went up to you again and again, saying,
“Hail,
king of the Jews!”
And
they struck you in the face.
But
your heavenly Father is righteous;
he
cut you free from the cords of the wicked.
For
the wages of sin is death,
and
God made you who had no sin
to be
sin for me, so that in you
I
might become the righteousness of God.
But he
raised you from the dead,
freeing
you from the agony of death,
because it was impossible for death
to
keep its hold on you.
For
you were pierced for my transgressions,
you
were crushed for my iniquities;
the
punishment that brought me peace was upon
you,
and
by your wounds I am healed.
You forgave us all my sins,
having cancelled the written code,
with its
regulations,
that was against me and that
stood opposed to me;
you
took it away, nailing it to the cross.
And having disarmed the powers
and authorities,
you
made a public spectacle of them,
triumphing
over them by the cross.
May all
who hate the heavenly Zion,
be
turned back in shame.
May their
harvest be like grass on the roof,
which
withers before it can grow;
may the reapers not fill their hands with it,
nor
those who gather fill their arms.
May
those who pass by not say to them;
“The
blessing of the Lord be upon you;
we
bless you in the name of the Lord.”
Instead, do not be let them be deceived, O God
for
you cannot be mocked.
Each
one of us reaps what we sow.
Those
who sow to please their sinful nature,
from
that nature will reap destruction;
Those
who sow to please the Spirit,
from
the Spirit will reap eternal life.
So
help us to gently instruct
those
who oppose you,
in the
hope that you will grant them repentance,
leading
them to a knowledge of the truth.
2Tim. 2:25 Those who oppose him he must gently
instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a
knowledge of the truth,
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Psalm 129 Prayed
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