Psalms 129

1 A song of ascents. ‘Sore have they vexed me from youth’ thus let Israel say

[A Song of Ascents.] Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

2 ‘Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 ‘The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long.

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

4 But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.’

Jehovah is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

5 Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated.

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

6 May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up;

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

7 which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves

with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

8 whereof no one says as they pass, ‘The blessing of God be upon you.’ In the name of the Lord we bless you.

Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Jehovah be on you. We bless you in the name of Jehovah."