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׃ |
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׃ |
