Psalms 129
Psalm 1291
A song of ascents.2
129:1 “Since my youth they have often attacked me,”
let Israel say.
129:2 “Since my youth they have often attacked me,
but they have not defeated me.
129:3 The plowers plowed my back;
they made their furrows long.
he cut the ropes of the wicked.”3
be humiliated and turned back!
129:6 May they be like the grass on the rooftops
which withers before one can even pull it up,4
129:7 which cannot fill the reaper’s hand,
or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
129:8 Those who pass by will not say,5
“May you experience the Lord’s blessing!
We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the Lord.”