Chapter 129

¹{A Song of degrees.} Many 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!