Psalms 129

1 A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:

שיר המעלות רבת צררוני מנעורי-- יאמר-נא ישראל

2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

רבת צררוני מנעורי גם לא-יכלו לי

3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

על-גבי חרשו חרשים האריכו למענותם (למעניתם)

4 The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

יהוה צדיק קצץ עבות רשעים

5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

יבשו ויסגו אחור-- כל שנאי ציון

6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

יהיו כחציר גגות-- שקדמת שלף יבש

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

שלא מלא כפו קוצר וחצנו מעמר

8 Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”

ולא אמרו העברים-- ברכת-יהוה אליכם ברכנו אתכם בשם יהוה