Psalms, 129

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0. A Song of Ascents.

1. [Song of Ascents] Often as men have attacked me since I was young -- let Israel repeat it-

1. "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth," let Israel now say --

2. often as men have attacked me since I was young, they have never overcome me.

2. "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

3. On my back ploughmen have set to work, making long furrows,

3. The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows."

4. but Yahweh the upright has shattered the yoke of the wicked.

4. The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

5. Let all who hate Zion be thrown back in confusion,

5. May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

6. let them be like grass on a roof, dried up before it is cut,

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

7. never to fill the reaper's arm nor the binder's lap.

7. with which the reaper does not fill his hand or the binder of sheaves his bosom,

8. And no passer-by will say, 'The blessing of Yahweh be on you! 'We bless you in the name of Yahweh.'

8. while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!"