Psalms 129

LEB(i) 1 A song of ascents.*
"Too often* they have attacked me from my youth." Let Israel say, 2 "Too often* they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. 3 On my back plowmen have plowed. They have made their furrows* long." 4 Yahweh is righteous. He has cut the ropes* of the wicked. 5 Let all be put to shame and repulsed who hate Zion. 6 Let them be like grass on the housetops, that withers before it grows up, 7 with which a reaper cannot fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms,* 8 so that passersby do not say, "The blessing of Yahweh be upon you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh."