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Psalms 125
A Psalm of Ascents that sets covenant geography against covenant character: those who trust in Jehovah are likened to Mount Zion itself — immovable, eternally settled — while Jehovah surrounds His people as the mountain ring surrounds Jerusalem. The central covenant promise is judicial: the rod of the wicked will not be permitted to rest upon the inheritance of the righteous, because prolonged oppression would press even the upright toward iniquity. The psalm closes with a sharp division — Jehovah does good to the upright in heart, but those who turn to crooked ways are sorted with the workers of iniquity. Peace rests on Israel, meaning on the covenant remnant, not on the wayward.
1
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
3
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
4
Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.
5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
