129:1 [A Song of Ascents.] "Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth"-- let Israel now say-- 129:2 "Greatly 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 has cut the cords of the wicked. 129:5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! 129:6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, 129:7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms, 129:8 nor do those who pass by say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!"