129 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

124 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;

11 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

² Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

¹⁵ And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

120 In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

¹² Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

127 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

126 When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

122 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.