Psalms 129 — NETB

A song of ascents.

129Verse 1“Since my youth they have often attacked me,”
let Israel say.
^{Verse 2}“Since my youth they have often attacked me,
but they have not defeated me.
^{Verse 3}The plowers plowed my back;
they made their furrows long.
^{Verse 4}The Lord is just;
he cut the ropes of the wicked.”
^{Verse 5}May all who hate Zion
be humiliated and turned back!
^{Verse 6}May they be like the grass on the rooftops
which withers before one can even pull it up,
^{Verse 7}which cannot fill the reaper’s hand,
or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
^{Verse 8}Those who pass by will not say,
“May you experience the Lord’s blessing!
We pronounce a blessing on you in the name of the Lord.”