Psalms129

Persecuted but Not Defeated

^1•Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: ^2•Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: 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 all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. ^6•Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: ^7•Wherewith the mower 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.