Psalms 129:1-8

¹A song of ascents. “Sore have they vexed me from youth” thus let Israel say

²“Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me.

³“The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long.

⁴But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.”

⁵Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated.

⁶May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up;

⁷which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves

⁸whereof no one says as they pass, “The blessing of God be upon you.” In the name of the Lord we bless you.