Good News Translation (Biblia.com)

A Prayer against Israel’s Enemies

129 Israel, tell us how your enemies have persecuted you

ever since you were young.

2 “Ever since I was young,

my enemies have persecuted me cruelly,

but they have not overcome me.

3 They cut deep wounds in my back

and made it like a ploughed field.

4 But the Lord, the righteous one,

has freed me from slavery.”

5 May everyone who hates Zion

be defeated and driven back.

6 May they all be like grass growing on the housetops,

which dries up before it can grow;

7 no one gathers it up

or carries it away in bundles.

8 No one who passes by will say,

“May the Lord bless you!

We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

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