Psalms 129:1
8 verses
- 1
Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:
- 2
many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
- 3
The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
- 4
Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
- 5
Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
- 6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
- 7
with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
- 8
Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”