Chapter 129
- They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth A Song of Ascents. Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth — let Israel now say —
- Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
- The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
- The Lord is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
- May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!
- Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
- with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
- nor do those who pass by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you! We bless you in the name of the Lord!