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My back is covered with cuts,
    as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.
But the Lord is good;
    he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly.

May all who hate Jerusalem[a]
    be turned back in shameful defeat.

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Footnotes

  1. 129:5 Hebrew Zion.

Plowmen have plowed my back
    and made their furrows long.
But the Lord is righteous;(A)
    he has cut me free(B) from the cords of the wicked.”(C)

May all who hate Zion(D)
    be turned back in shame.(E)

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

The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

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