Psalm 129

1Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say, 2yet they have not prevailed against me. many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, 3They made their furrows long. The plowers plowed on my back. 4He has cut apart the cords of the wicked. Yahweh is righteous. 5all those who hate Zion. Let them be disappointed and turned backward, 6which withers before it grows up; Let them be as the grass on the housetops, 7nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, 8“The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.” Neither do those who go by say,