Psalm 129

Victory Over the Enemies of Zion

129A song of ascents.^a

¹“Too often^b they have attacked me from my youth.”

Let Israel say,

²“Too often^c they have attacked me from my youth,

yet they have not prevailed against me.

³On my back plowmen have plowed.

They have made their furrows^d long.”

⁴Yahweh is righteous.

He has cut the ropes^e of the wicked.

⁵Let all be put to shame and repulsed

who hate Zion.

⁶Let them be like grass on the housetops,

that withers before it grows up,

⁷with which a reaper cannot fill his hand,

nor the binder of sheaves his arms,^f

⁸so that passersby do not say,

“The blessing of Yahweh be upon you.

We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”