Psalms 125

Trust, Steadfastness, and Two Diverging Paths

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Overview

Using the immovable mountains of Zion and Jerusalem as its central image, this Song of Ascents declares the enduring security of those who trust in Yahweh rather than human power, affirms that the dominion of the wicked over the righteous is not permanent, and closes with a petition for blessing upon the upright alongside a solemn warning that those who turn to crooked ways will be led to judgment with evildoers.

Passages

1–3Unmoved as Zion: The Security of Those Who Trust in God 4–5The Fork in the Road: Divine Blessing and the Peril of Crooked Ways

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Psalms 125

¹A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

²As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

³For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous, so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

⁴Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

⁵But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

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