<Psalms 129

[1] “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say—

[2] “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, 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 has cut the cords of the wicked.

[5] May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

[6] Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

[7] with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

[8] nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!”