Psalms 129:1 ←
A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
Psalms 129:2 ←
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms 129:3 ←
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
Psalms 129:4 ←
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Psalms 129:5 ←
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
Psalms 129:6 ←
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Psalms 129:7 ←
Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psalms 129:8 ←
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
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