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Psalms 129 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | [A song for going up to worship.] |From the time I was young, people have attacked me...| (Israel should repeat this.) | “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say— | A song of ascents. “They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,” let Israel say; | |
| 2 | |From the time I was young, people have attacked me, but they have never overpowered me. | “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. | “they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me. | |
| 3 | They have plowed my back [like farmers plow fields]. They made long slashes [like furrows].| | The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” | Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long. | |
| 4 | The LORD is righteous. He has cut me loose from the ropes that wicked people tied around me. | The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked. | But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.” | |
| 5 | Put to shame all those who hate Zion. Force them to retreat. | May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! | May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame. | |
| 6 | Make them be like grass on a roof, like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk. | Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, | May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow; | |
| 7 | It will never fill the barns of those who harvest or the arms of those who gather bundles. | with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms, | a reaper cannot fill his hands with it, nor one who gathers fill his arms. | |
| 8 | Those who pass by will never say [to them], |May you be blessed by the LORD| or |We bless you in the name of the LORD.| | nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!” | May those who pass by not say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.” | |
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