The Psalms

chapter 129


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verse #1

A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:


verse #2

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.


verse #3

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.


verse #4

Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.


verse #5

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.


verse #6

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,


verse #7

with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.


verse #8

Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”

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