Psalm 129

Jubilee Bible 2000

A Song of degrees.

¹ ¶ Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

² Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.

³ The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.

⁴ The LORD is righteous; he has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵ ¶ All those that hate Zion shall all be confounded and turned back.

⁶ They shall be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

⁷ with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.

⁸ Neither did those who go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.