Psalm 129

A Song of Ascents.

“Many times they have assailed me from my youth up,”

Let Israel now say,

“Many times they have assailed me from my youth up;

Yet they have not prevailed against me.

The plowers plowed upon my back;

They lengthened their furrows.”

Yahweh is righteous;

He has cut up the cords of the wicked.

Let all who hate Zion

Be put to shame and turned backward;

Let them be like grass upon the rooftops,

Which dries up before it grows up;

With which the reaper does not fill his hand,

Nor the binder of sheaves the fold of his garment;

And those who pass by will not say,

“The blessing of Yahweh be upon you;

We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”