Chapter 129
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 ploughers ploughed on my back . They made their furrows long .
4 The LORD 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 the LORD be on you . We bless you in the LORD ’s name ."