Psalms 129
129
A Song of Ascents.
1Many 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.
4The LORD is righteous:
He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5Let them be ashamed and turned backward,
All they that hate Zion.
6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,
Which withereth afore it groweth up:
7Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,
Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8Neither do they which go by say,
The blessing of the LORD be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the LORD.
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Psalms 129
129
Psalm 129
A song for going up to worship.
1“From the time I was young, people have attacked me …”
(Israel should repeat this.)
2“From the time I was young, people have attacked me,
but they have never overpowered me.
3They have plowed my back ⌞like farmers plow fields⌟.
They made long slashes ⌞like furrows⌟.”
4The Lord is righteous.
He has cut me loose
from the ropes that wicked people tied around me.
5Put to shame all those who hate Zion.
Force them to retreat.
6Make them be like grass on a roof,
like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk.
7It will never fill the barns of those who harvest
or the arms of those who gather bundles.
8Those who pass by will never say ⌞to them⌟,
“May you be blessed by the Lord”
or “We bless you in the name of the Lord.”
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