129 Many
a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: 2 Many
a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed
against me. 3 The
plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. 5 Let
them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6 Let
them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth
up: 7 Wherewith
the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 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.
