<The Psalms. 129

[1] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, let Israel now say;

[2] Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: yet they have not prevailed against me.

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

[4] The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

[5] Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all they that hate Zion.

[6] Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

[7] Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

[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.