Psalm 129:1 - The Scriptures 2009 Often they have distressed me from my youth. Let Yisra’ĕl now say, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, May Israel now say: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition MANY A time and much have they afflicted me from my youth up–let Israel now say– American Standard Version (1901) Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say, Common English Bible From youth, people have constantly attacked me— let Israel now repeat!— Catholic Public Domain Version A Canticle in steps. From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord: |
I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the House of יהוה.”
Those who trust in יהוה Are like Mount Tsiyon – It is not shaken, it remains forever.
When יהוה turns back the captivity of Tsiyon, We shall be like dreamers.
If יהוה does not build the house, Its builders have laboured in vain. If יהוה does not guard the city, The watchman has stayed awake in vain.
I am afflicted and dying from childhood; I have borne frightening matters from You; I am in despair.
So they set slave-masters over them to afflict them with their burdens, and they built for Pharaoh supply cities, Pithom and Ra‛amses.
And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Throw every son who is born into the river, and keep alive every daughter.”
“Stand now with your potent spells and your many witchcrafts, in which you have laboured from your youth, if so be you are able to profit, if so be you find strength.
“Go, and you shall cry in the hearing of Yerushalayim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “I remember you, the loving-commitment of your youth, the love of your bridehood, when you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
“I have spoken to you in your ease, but you said, ‘I do not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, for you did not obey My voice.
Yehuḏah has gone into exile, Because of affliction and because of harsh labour. She has dwelt among nations, She has found no rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her Between narrow places.
“And they whored in Mitsrayim, they whored in their youth. There their breasts were handled, and there their maiden nipples were squeezed.
“When Yisra’ĕl was a child, I loved him, and out of Mitsrayim I called My son.
and give to her vineyards from there, and the Valley of Aḵor as a door of expectation. And there she shall respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day when she came up from the land of Mitsrayim.
Wherever they went out, the hand of יהוה was against them for evil, as יהוה had spoken, and as יהוה had sworn to them. And they were distressed – greatly.
And the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ĕl, and He sold them into the hand of Kushan-Rish‛athayim sovereign of Aram Naharayim. And the children of Yisra’ĕl served Kushan-Rish‛athayim eight years.
Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Yisra’ĕl, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.”