Psalms 129
129
(A song for worship.)
A Prayer for Protection
1Since the time I was young,
enemies have often attacked!
Let everyone in Israel say:
2“Since the time I was young,
enemies have often attacked!
But they have not defeated me,
3though my back is like a field
that has just been plowed.”
4The Lord always does right,
and he has set me free
from the ropes
of those cruel people.
5I pray that all who hate
the city of Zion
will be made ashamed
and forced to turn and run.
6May they be like grass
on the flat roof of a house,
grass that dries up
as soon as it sprouts.
7Don't let them be like wheat
gathered in bundles.
8And don't let anyone
who passes by say to them,
“The Lord bless you!
I give you my blessing
in the name of the Lord.”
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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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