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Psalm 129

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1 "They've kicked me around ever since I was young" - this is how Israel tells it -
1 <<A Song of Ascents.>> Many times have they afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,
2 "They've kicked me around ever since I was young, but they never could keep me down.
2 Many times have they afflicted me from my youth up, Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 Their plowmen plowed long furrows up and down my back;
3 The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
4 Then God ripped the harnesses of the evil plowmen to shreds."
4 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
5 Oh, let all those who hate Zion grovel in humiliation;
5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All those who hate Zion.
6 Let them be like grass in shallow ground that withers before the harvest,
6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
7 Before the farmhands can gather it in, the harvesters get in the crop,
7 With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
8 Before the neighbors have a chance to call out, "Congratulations on your wonderful crop! We bless you in God's name!"
8 Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh."
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