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 doesn't 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 name of the LORD."

ולא אמרו העברים ברכת יהוה אליכם ברכנו אתכם בשם יהוה׃