Psalm 129

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹ ‘Often have they attacked me from my youth’
    —let Israel now say—
² ‘often have they attacked me from my youth,
    yet they have not prevailed against me.
³ Those who plough ploughed on my back;
    they made their furrows long.’
⁴ The Lord is righteous;
    he has cut the cords of the wicked.
⁵ May all who hate Zion
    be put to shame and turned back.
⁶ Let them be like the grass on the housetops
    that withers before it grows up,
⁷ with which reapers do not fill their hands
    or binders of sheaves their arms,
⁸ while those who pass by do not say,
    ‘The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
    We bless you in the name of the Lord!’