A Song of Ascents.

129:1 Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.

Let Israel now say,

129:2 many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,

yet they have not prevailed against me.

129:3 The plowers plowed on my back.

They made their furrows long.

129:4 Yahweh is righteous.

He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

129:5 Let them be disappointed and turned backward,

all those who hate Zion.

129:6 Let them be as the grass on the housetops,

which withers before it grows up;

129:7 with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand,

nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

129:8 Neither do those who go by say,

"The blessing of Yahweh be on you.

We bless you in the name of Yahweh."