Psalm CXXIX.

* A Song of degrees.

* Many a time have they aafflicted me from bmy youth,

cMay Israel now say:

2  * Many a time have they aafflicted me from my youth:

dYet they have not prevailed against me.

3  ddThe plowers plowed upon my back:

They made long their efurrows.

4  The Lord is righteous:

He hath cut asunder the fcords of the wicked.

5  Let them all be gconfounded and gturned back

That hate Zion.

6  Let them be has the igrass upon the housetops,

Which iwithereth afore it groweth up:

7  Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand;

Nor he that bindeth sheaves his kbosom.

8  Neither do they which go by say,

lThe blessing of the Lord be upon you:

mWe bless you in the name of the Lord.