Psalms 129

1 A song of ascents. ‘Sore have they vexed me from youth’ thus let Israel say

A Song of the Ascents. Often they distressed me from my youth, Pray, let Israel say:

2 ‘Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

Often they distressed me from my youth, Yet they have not prevailed over me.

3 ‘The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long.

Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.

4 But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.’

Jehovah [is] righteous, He hath cut asunder cords of the wicked.

5 Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated.

Confounded and turn backward do all hating Zion.

6 May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up;

They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

7 which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves

That hath not filled the hand of a reaper, And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.

8 whereof no one says as they pass, ‘The blessing of God be upon you.’ In the name of the Lord we bless you.

And the passers by have not said, 'The blessing of Jehovah [is] on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'