PSALM 129 Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion’s Enemies. A Song of Ascents. 129
1“[M]Many times they have [N]persecuted me from my youth up,”
Let Israel now say,
2“[O]Many times they have [P]persecuted me from my youth up;
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
3“The plowers plowed upon my back;
They lengthened their furrows.”
4The Lord is righteous;
He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.
5May all who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned backward;
6Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it [Q]grows up;
7With which the reaper does not fill his [R]hand,
Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;
8Nor do those who pass by say,
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the Lord.”
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