Songs from the Heart Day 33 Psalm 129

Write the Psalm

Psalm 129

 “They’ve kicked me around ever since I was young”

    —this is how Israel tells it—

“They’ve kicked me around ever since I was young,

    but they never could keep me down.

Their plowmen plowed long furrows

    up and down my back;

But God wouldn’t put up with it,

    he sticks with us.

Then God ripped the harnesses

    of the evil plowmen to shreds.”

Oh, let all those who hate Zion

    grovel in humiliation;

Let them be like grass in shallow ground

    that withers before the harvest,

Before the farmhands can gather it in,

    the harvesters get in the crop,

Before the neighbors have a chance to call out,

    “Congratulations on your wonderful crop!

    We bless you in God’s name!”

—The Message

Look over several translations of Psalm 129, then write the psalm in your journal. As you write, think about the situations, circumstances or relationships in your life in which you feel defeated or like restoration or redemption could never come. But Psalm 129 declares that God is the Restorer of his people. Even through tears, express your faith that God is at work and ultimately all injustice will be set to rights, even if it doesn’t happen on your timeline.