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Psalm 129

Common English Bible CEB

1 From youth, people have constantly attacked me— let Israel now repeat!—

2 from youth people have constantly attacked me— but they haven't beaten me!

3 They plowed my back like farmers; they made their furrows deep.

4 But the LORD is righteous— God cut me free from the ropes of the wicked!

5 Let everyone who hates Zion be ashamed, thoroughly frustrated.

6 Let them be like grass on a roof that dies before it can be pulled up,

7 which won't fill the reaper's hand or fill the harvester's arms.

8 Let no one who passes by say to them: "May the LORD's blessing be on you! We bless you in the LORD's name!"

The Message Bible MSG

1 "They've kicked me around ever since I was young" - this is how Israel tells it -

2 "They've kicked me around ever since I was young, but they never could keep me down.

3 Their plowmen plowed long furrows up and down my back;

4 Then God ripped the harnesses of the evil plowmen to shreds."

5 Oh, let all those who hate Zion grovel in humiliation;

6 Let them be like grass in shallow ground that withers before the harvest,

7 Before the farmhands can gather it in, the harvesters get in the crop,

8 Before the neighbors have a chance to call out, "Congratulations on your wonderful crop! We bless you in God's name!"