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Psalm 129

Yahweh Has Cut the Cords of the Wicked

A Song of Ascents.

“Many times they have assailed me from my youth up,”
Let Israel now say,
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“Many times they have assailed me from my youth up;
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
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The plowers plowed upon my back;
They lengthened their furrows.”
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Yahweh is righteous;
He has cut up the cords of the wicked.

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Let all who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned backward;
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Let them be like grass upon the rooftops,
Which dries up before it grows up;
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With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Nor the binder of sheaves the fold of his garment;
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And those who pass by will not say,
“The blessing of Yahweh be upon you;
We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”