Isaiah 12 caps the promises of Isaiah 7–11 with a compact hymn. It teaches a rescued people to confess God as salvation, draw joy from the wells he provides, and make his deeds known among the nations because the Holy One is great in their midst.
Isaiah 10 indicts crooked laws, reveals Assyria as a rod in God’s hand, and then humbles that rod for boasting. At the center stands a promise: a remnant will return and truly rely on the Holy One, as the Mighty One lifts Zion’s yoke and fells the forest of pride.
Isaiah 4 moves from social disgrace to purified hope. The Lord washes Zion by judgment and fire, raises the Branch in beauty, and spreads a glory-canopy that shelters a holy people.
Isaiah 2 holds a bright mountain and a hard warning together. Nations will learn God’s ways and unlearn war, while present pride and idols must fall as we walk in the Lord’s light.
Isaiah 1 opens with a courtroom and a father’s grief. It rejects empty ritual, commands mercy, offers cleansing, and promises a refined city under the Holy One’s rule.
Psalm 137 weeps by Babylon’s rivers, swears fidelity to Jerusalem, and entrusts justice to God against betrayers and conquerors. The psalm equips worshipers to lament honestly, remember faithfully, and hope for the day when the Lord keeps every promise to Zion.
Psalm 135 stacks reasons for praise—creation’s breadth, exodus rescue, and an enduring name—while exposing lifeless idols. The song gathers Israel and all who fear the Lord to bless the One who vindicates and has compassion.
Psalm 134 completes the Songs of Ascents with a call-and-response: bless the Lord in His house and receive His benediction from Zion. The Maker of heaven and earth sends Creator-sized blessing into ordinary life.
Psalm 132 unites David’s vow and God’s oath, celebrating Zion as the Lord’s resting place and promising a radiant crown for the Anointed. The song trains worshipers to pray with covenant confidence and to live with generous joy as we await the Son of David’s visible reign.
The Songs of Ascents form a miniature hymnal for pilgrims—Psalms 120–134—moving from distress to doxology. They train hearts to look to the Maker, love Zion, and carry worship into ordinary steps.
Psalm 131 is a small psalm with wide reach. David renounces proud striving, quiets his soul like a weaned child, and calls Israel to hope in the Lord now and forever.
Psalm 129 turns shared wounds into worship and shared rescues into praise. It asks God to cut cords, to wither hostile schemes, and to keep blessing where it belongs.
This study follows Psalm 128 from reverent obedience to tangible blessing—bread, family, and civic peace under God. It links table joy to Zion’s prosperity and prays “peace be on Israel.”
This study traces Psalm 126’s arc from remembered restoration to fresh petition. It shows how God turns desert channels to rivers and tearful sowing into songs of harvest.
Psalm 121 lifts our eyes past the mountains to the Lord, the Maker who keeps our steps. This chapter study traces creation, care, and forever hope in the Keeper of Israel.