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Psalm 129

1 Since my youth they have often attacked me- let Israel say-

1 “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say—

2 Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not prevailed against me.

2 “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

3 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows. ”

4 The Lord is righteous; He has cut the ropes of the wicked.

4 The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

5 Let all who hate Zion be driven back in disgrace.

5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

6 Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up

6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

7 and can't even fill the hands of the reaper or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.

7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

8 Then none who pass by will say, "May the Lord's blessing be on you." We bless you in the name of the Lord.

8 nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord! ”