Psalms



Psalm 129

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 hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
   5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
   6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
   7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
   8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.