Psalms 129

1. 1 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:
2. 2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
3. 3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
4. 4 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
5. 5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
6. 6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
7. 7 with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
8. 8 Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”