Psalm 129

Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

¹“Many a time they have ^aafflicted ¹me from ^bmy youth,”

^cLet Israel now say—

²“Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth;

Yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed on my back;

They made their furrows long.”

⁴The Lord is righteous;

He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let all those who hate Zion

Be put to shame and turned back.

⁶Let them be as the ^dgrass on the housetops,

Which withers before it grows up,

⁷With which the reaper does not fill his hand,

Nor he who binds sheaves, his ²arms.

⁸Neither let those who pass by them say,

^e“The blessing of the Lord be upon you;

We bless you in the name of the Lord!”