Psalms129

Persecuted but Not Defeated

^1•Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, ^2•many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me. ^3•The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long. ^4•Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. ^5•Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion. ^6•Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, ^7•with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. ^8•Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”