129:1 |
A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: |
129:2 |
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. |
129:3 |
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. |
129:4 |
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. |
129:5 |
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. |
129:6 |
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: |
129:7 |
Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. |
129:8 |
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD. |