PSALM 129

Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion’s Enemies.

A Song of Ascents.

1
“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,
Let Israel now say,

2
“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up;
Yet they have not prevailed against me.

3
“The plowers plowed upon my back;
They lengthened their furrows.

4
The LORD is righteous;
He has cut in two the cords of the wicked.

5
May all who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned backward;

6
Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;

7
With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;

8
Nor do those who pass by say,
“The blessing of the LORD be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the LORD.