Psalm

129 “Long enough they have shown hostility to me from my youth,”+

Let Israel now say,+

 2 “Long enough they have shown hostility to me from my youth;+

Yet they have not prevailed over me.+

 3 Plowmen have plowed upon my very back;+

They have lengthened their furrows.”*

 4 Jehovah is righteous.+

He has cut in pieces the ropes of the wicked ones.+

 5 They will be ashamed and turn themselves back,+

All those hating Zion.+

 6 They will become like green grass of the roofs,+

Which before it has been torn out has dried up,+

 7 With which the reaper has not filled his own hand,+

Nor anyone gathering sheaves his own bosom.

 8 Nor have those passing by said:

“The blessing of Jehovah be upon YOU men.+

We have blessed YOU in the name of Jehovah.”+