Many a time have they afflicted me
from my youth, may Israel now say:
129:2
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they
have not prevailed against me.
129:3
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their
furrows.
129:4
The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of
the wicked.
129:5
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
129:6
Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which
withereth afore it groweth up:
129:7
Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that
bindeth sheaves his bosom.
129:8
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD
[be] upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
