Psalm 129

¹“Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth,” *let Israel now say;

²“Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth, *but they have not prevailed against me.”

³The plowmen plowed upon my back *and made their furrows long.

⁴The Lord, the Righteous One, *has cut the cords of the wicked.

⁵Let them be put to shame and thrown back, *all those who are enemies of Zion.

⁶Let them be like grass upon the housetops, *which withers before it can be plucked;

⁷Which does not fill the hand of the reaper, *nor the bosom of him who binds the sheaves;

⁸So that those who go by say not so much as, “The Lord prosper you. *We wish you well in the Name of the Lord.”