Psalm 128 in full. Tune: Church Triumphant

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Sing Psalms
Psalm 128
"How blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk the way that he has shown"
Tune: Church Triumphant
Church Triumphant is tune 141 in Sing Psalms
https://freechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sing-Psalms-Music-PDF.pdf#page=93
It is recommended for Psalm 18, Psalm 72 and Psalm 118.
Crow Road Free Church
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as one-to-one correspondences.
Images:
Have the law on your heart. (Deuteronomy 6:6-9 & Deuteronomy 11:18-20)
Christians wouldn't advocate any crass literalism but rather the Spiritual reality that lies behind the symbolism. Sinclair Ferguson talks about the 15 Psalms of Assent spiralling in groups of 3. While Psalm 127 emphasises God's Sovereignty, Psalm 128 emphasises our responsibility.

The Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6 is regularly eluded to in the Psalms of Assents.

A Song of Ascents
PSALM 128 L.M.

1 How blessed are all who fear the LORD,
Who walk the way that he has shown.
2 Success and blessing will be yours;
You’ll eat the fruit that you have grown.

3 Your wife will be a fruitful vine;
And round your table will be placed
Your children like young olive shoots.
4 Thus he who fears the LORD is blessed.

5 May you behold Jerus’lem’s good;
From Zion may God’s blessing flow.
6 Your children’s children may you see.
May God on Isr’el peace bestow!

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