129:1  A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me
from my youth, may Israel now say:
 129:2  Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet
they have not prevailed against me.
 129:3  The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their
furrows.
 129:4  The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords
of the wicked.
 129:5  Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate
Zion.
 129:6  Let them be as the grass [upon] the housetops, which
withereth afore it groweth up:
 129:7  Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that
bindeth sheaves his bosom.
 129:8  Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the
LORD [be] upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.