Psalm 129 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

A Song of Ascents.

¹ Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say;

² Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.

³ The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.

⁴ The LORD is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵ Let them be ashamed and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

⁶ Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth afore it groweth up:

⁷ Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

⁸ Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you; We bless you in the name of the LORD.