Psalms Chapter 129

A Song of Ascents

¹ Let Israel say,

         ²“They’ve persecuted me often since I was young,

            but they haven’t defeated me.

         ³My back looks like a farmer plowed it

            and made long furrows.”

⁴ Yahveh is good;

      he has cut loose from me the cords of the wicked.

⁵ May everyone that hates Zion

      be driven away and discredited.

⁶ Let them be like grass on a rooftop

         that withers before it’s grown.

⁷ The reaper doesn’t fill his hand with it,

      or the bundler fill his arms.

⁸ People that go past don’t say,

      “Yahveh bless you;

      we bless you in his name.”                                              

Ps 129:1-8