Psalm 129 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹ Song of ascensions. Much they pressed me from my youth, shall Israel now say:

² Much they pressed me from my youth: also they shall not prevail against me.

³ They ploughing, ploughed upon my back: they made long to their furrows

⁴ Jehovah the just cut the entanglings of the unjust

⁵ They shall be ashamed and draw back all hating Zion.

⁶ They shall be as the grass of the roofs drying up before it was drawn out:

⁷ He harvesting filled not his hand; and he heaping together, not his arm.

⁸ And they passing by, said not, The praise of Jehovah to you: we praised you in the name of Jehovah.