Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

129 ^{1 a}Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,

Let Israel now say,

²Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:

Yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The plowers plowed upon my back;

They made long their furrows.

⁴Jehovah is righteous:

He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them be put to shame and turned backward,

All they that hate Zion.

⁶Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,

Which withereth before it ^agroweth up;

⁷Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,

Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

⁸Neither do they that go by say,

The blessing of Jehovah be upon you;

We bless you in the name of Jehovah.