Psalms 129

1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

1 Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

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

2Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.

3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

3The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.

4The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

4The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.

5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

5Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.

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

6Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.

8And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.