Parallel Bible results for "Psalm 129:1-6"

Psalms 129:1-6

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1 From youth, people have constantly attacked me— let Israel now repeat!—
1 “They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,” let Israel say;
2 from youth people have constantly attacked me— but they haven't beaten me!
2 “they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me.
3 They plowed my back like farmers; they made their furrows deep.
3 Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.
4 But the LORD is righteous— God cut me free from the ropes of the wicked!
4 But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.”
5 Let everyone who hates Zion be ashamed, thoroughly frustrated.
5 May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
6 Let them be like grass on a roof that dies before it can be pulled up,
6 May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;
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