Chapter 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.”