Psalm 129

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

129A Song of ^mAscents.

¹“Greatly¹ have they ^pafflicted me ^qfrom my youth”—

^rlet Israel now say—

²“Greatly have they ^pafflicted me ^qfrom my youth,

^syet they have not prevailed against me.

^3tThe plowers plowed ^uupon my back;

they made long their furrows.”

⁴The Lord is righteous;

he has cut ^vthe cords of the wicked.

⁵May all who hate Zion

be ^wput to shame and turned backward!

⁶Let them be like ^xthe grass on the housetops,

which ^ywithers before it grows up,

⁷with which the reaper does not fill his hand

nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

⁸nor do those who pass by say,

^a“The blessing of the Lord be upon you!

We ^bbless you in the name of the Lord!”