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Psalm 130 is a regular part of our High Holidays liturgy.  The Sephardic tradition recites it at the end of the selichot prayers throughout the month of Elul, and then onwards to Yom Kippur. 

He has been harassed and tortured by other people for his entire life, both for his own actual sins and out of their own hatred and jealously. Now, with G-d’s help, he is finally returning from exile to his own land, even as his enemies fail and die away. 

Psalm 128 is relatively straightforward.  As part of our covenant, if we (as a people) obey the laws which we have been given (in the Torah), we will be rewarded with prosperity, family, long life and peace, as we live together around the holy city of Jerusalem in Eretz Yisrael.

This psalm is attributed to King Solomon.