Psalms 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.”