Psalm 129

₁Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth,

May Israel now say:

₂Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth:

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 all be confounded and turned back

That hate Zion.

₆Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,

Which withereth afore it groweth up:

₇Wherewith the mower 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.