Psalms, 129

A Song of the Ascents.

¹ “Long enough they have shown hostility to me from my youth,” Let Israel now say,

² “Long enough they have shown hostility to me from my youth; Yet they have not prevailed over me.

³ Plowmen have plowed upon my very back; They have lengthened their furrows.”^*1

⁴ Jehovah is righteous. He has cut in pieces the ropes of the wicked ones.

⁵ They will be ashamed and turn themselves back, All those hating Zion.

⁶ They will become like green grass of the roofs, Which before it has been torn out has dried up,

⁷ With which the reaper has not filled his own hand, Nor anyone gathering sheaves his own bosom.

⁸ Nor have those passing by said: “The blessing of Jehovah be upon YOU men. We have blessed YOU in the name of Jehovah.”