Psalm 129 - English Standard Version 2016 English Standard Version 2016
Psalm 129

¹ “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say—

² “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, 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 has cut the cords of the wicked.

⁵ May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

⁶ Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

⁷ with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

⁸ nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!”