Psalms 129:1-7 ▼

1 A song of ascents. Since my youth they have often attacked me — let Israel say —

2 since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not prevailed against me.

3 Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

4 The LORD is righteous; he has cut the ropes of the wicked.

5 Let all who hate Zion be driven back in disgrace.

6 Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up

7 and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.