Psalm 129
A Song of Ascents.
1 Many
times they have
afflicted me from
my youth up.
Let Israel now
say:
2 many
times they have
afflicted me from
my youth up,
yet they have
not prevailed
against me.
3 The
plowers plowed on
my back.
They made their
furrows long.
4 The
LORD is righteous.
He has cut apart
the cords of
the wicked.
5 Let them
be disappointed and
turned backward,
all those who
hate Zion.
6 Let
them be as
the grass on
the housetops,
which withers
before it grows
up,
7 with which
the reaper doesn’t
fill his hand,
nor he who binds
sheaves, his bosom.
8 Neither
do those who go
by say,
“The blessing of
the LORD be
on you.
We bless you
in the LORD’s
name.”