The Psalms (WEB)

Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

 ^129:1Many times have they afflicted me from my youth up.
      Let Israel now say,

 ^129:2Many times have they afflicted me from my youth up,
      Yet they have not prevailed against me.

 ^129:3The plowers plowed on my back.
      They made their furrows long.

 ^129:4Yahweh is righteous.
      He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

 ^129:5Let them be put to shame and turned backward,
      All those who hate Zion.

 ^129:6Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
      Which withers before it grows up;

 ^129:7With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand,
      Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

 ^129:8Neither do those who go by say,
      "The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
      We bless you in the name of Yahweh."

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