Psalm 129:1-8
A Song of the Ascents.
129 “Long enough they have shown hostility to me from my youth,”+Let Israel now say,+
2 “Long enough they have shown hostility to me from my youth;+Yet they have not prevailed over me.+
3 Plowmen have plowed upon my very back;+They have lengthened their furrows.”*
4 Jehovah is righteous.+He has cut in pieces the ropes of the wicked ones.+
5 They will be ashamed and turn themselves back,+All those hating Zion.+
6 They will become like green grass of the roofs,+Which before it has been torn out has dried up,+
7 With which the reaper has not filled his own hand,+Nor anyone gathering sheaves his own bosom.
8 Nor have those passing by said:“The blessing of Jehovah be upon YOU men.+We have blessed YOU in the name of Jehovah.”+
Footnotes
^ Or, “plowing grounds.”
