Psalm 129

Names of God Bible

¹ “From the time I was young, people have attacked me . . .”
    (Israel should repeat this.)
² “From the time I was young, people have attacked me,
    but they have never overpowered me.
³         They have plowed my back like farmers plow fields.
        They made long slashes like furrows.”
⁴ Yahweh is righteous.
    He has cut me loose
        from the ropes that wicked people tied around me.
⁵ Put to shame all those who hate Zion.
    Force them to retreat.
⁶ Make them be like grass on a roof,
    like grass that dries up before it produces a stalk.
⁷         It will never fill the barns of those who harvest
            or the arms of those who gather bundles.
⁸ Those who pass by will never say to them,
    “May you be blessed by Yahweh”
    or “We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”