< Psalms 129

[1] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

[2] Many a time 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 hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

[5] Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

[6] Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

[7] Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

[8] Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.