Psalms 129

Psalm title: A Song of degrees.

1. ¹Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth -- oh let Israel say --
2. ²Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.
3. ³The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
4. ⁴Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5. ⁵Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion;
6. ⁶Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,
7. ⁷Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom;
8. ⁸Neither do the passers-by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah!

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