< Psalms 129 >

1 A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, let Israel now say; 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: yet they have not prevailed against me. 3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows. 4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. 5 Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all they that hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.

< Psalms 129 >