Psalms 129

A Song of Ascents.

¹Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.
Let Israel now say,
²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,
yet they have not prevailed against me.
³The plowers plowed on my back.
They made their furrows long.
⁴Yahweh is righteous.
He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward,
all those who hate Zion.
⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up;
⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,
nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
⁸Neither do those who go by say,
“The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
We bless you in the name of Yahweh.” A Song of Ascents.