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Psalms 125 — The five-verse song about the one thing that doesn't move
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fresh.bible editorialOne of the — travel songs pilgrims sang on the uphill road to for . Five verses, one image: surrounds his people the way mountains surround a city.
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The psalmist opened with a comparison everyone on that road would have felt:
Those who put their trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion itself — it cannot be shaken. It stands forever.
The way the mountains wrap around Jerusalem, that's exactly how the Lord wraps around his people — from this moment on, and for all of time.
Not a locked door. Not a backup plan. Mountains. The most permanent, unmovable thing the ancient world knew. You don't hold onto a mountain. It holds the ground for you.
Then the psalmist addressed what happens when the wrong people are running things:
The rule of the wicked will not remain over the land given to the righteous — so that the righteous won't be pushed into compromise, stretching out their own hands to do wrong.
The here is specific: removes the pressure before it breaks you. The danger isn't that wickedness exists — it's that living under it long enough makes you think it's normal. is that he won't let that season reshape who you are.
The closed with honesty, , and very few words:
Do good, Lord, to those who are good, to those whose hearts are genuinely upright.
But those who turn aside to crooked paths — the Lord will lead them away with those who do evil.
Peace be upon Israel.
No argument. Just quiet confidence that sees who's and who's drifting. Three final words that land like a : peace be upon . That's where leads — not anxiety, but the quiet certainty he already showed up. . Over all of it.