Psalm 129. Saepe expugnaverunt.

1. MANY a time have they fought against me from my youth up, *
   may Israel now say;
2. Yea, many a time have they vexed me from my youth up; *
   but they have not prevailed against me.
3. The plowers plowed upon my back, *
   and made long furrows.
4. But the righteous Lord *
   hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.
5. Let them be confounded and turned backward, *
   as many as have evil will at Sion.
6. Let them be even as the grass upon the housetops, *
   which withereth afore it be grown up;
7. Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, *
   neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom.
8. So that they who go by say not so much as, The Lord prosper you; *
   we wish you good luck in the Name of the Lord.