Psalm 129

¹Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth — oh let Israel say —

²Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.

³The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows.

⁴Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion;

⁶Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up,

⁷Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom;

⁸Neither do the passers-by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah!