The Psalms

Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

 ^129:1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,

 Let Israel now say,

 ^129:2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:

 Yet they have not prevailed against me.

 ^129:3The plowers plowed upon my back;

 They made long their furrows.

 ^129:4Jehovah is righteous:

 He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

 ^129:5Let them be put to shame and turned backward,

 All they that hate Zion.

 ^129:6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,

 Which withereth before it groweth up;

 ^129:7Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,

 Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

 ^129:8Neither do they that go by say,

 The blessing of Jehovah be upon you;

 We bless you in the name of Jehovah.