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Psalms 129 Parallel Bible Translations
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| 1 | From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me. Let all Israel 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 my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated 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 | My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. | The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” | Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long. | |
| 4 | But the LORD is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly. | 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 | May all who hate Jerusalem be turned back in shameful defeat. | May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! | May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame. | |
| 6 | May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop, turning yellow when only half grown, | 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 | ignored by the harvester, despised by the binder. | 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 | And may those who pass by refuse to give them this blessing: “The LORD bless you; we bless you in the LORD’s name.” | 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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