Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

129 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.

    Let Israel now say,

2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,

    yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 The plowers plowed on my back.

    They made their furrows long.

4 Yahweh is righteous.

    He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward,

    all those who hate Zion.

6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops,

    which withers before it grows up,

7 with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,

    nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

8 Neither do those who go by say,

    “The blessing of Yahweh be on you.

    We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”