Psalm 129

Common English Bible

Psalm 129

A pilgrimage song.

129 From youth, people have constantly attacked me—
    let Israel now repeat!—
²    from youth people have constantly attacked me—
    but they haven’t beaten me!
³They plowed my back like farmers;
    they made their furrows deep.
⁴But the Lord is righteous—
    God cut me free from the ropes of the wicked!

⁵Let everyone who hates Zion be ashamed, thoroughly frustrated.
⁶    Let them be like grass on a roof
    that dies before it can be pulled up,
⁷    which won’t fill the reaper’s hand
        or fill the harvester’s arms.
⁸Let no one who passes by say to them:
    “May the Lord’s blessing be on you!
        We bless you in the Lord’s name!”