Psalms 129 — ULB

A song of ascents.

129Verse 1“Often since my youth they have attacked me,”
let Israel say.
^{Verse 2}“Often since my youth they have attacked me,
yet they have not defeated me.
^{Verse 3}The plowers plowed on my back;
they made their furrows long.
^{Verse 4}Yahweh is righteous;
he has cut the ropes of the wicked.”
^{Verse 5}May they all be put to shame and turned back,
those who hate Zion.
^{Verse 6}May they be like the grass on the housetops
that withers before it grows up,
^{Verse 7}that cannot fill the reaper's hand
or the chest of the one who binds bundles of grain together.
^{Verse 8}May those who pass by not say,
“May the blessing of Yahweh be on you;
we bless you in the name of Yahweh.”