Psalm 129
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1“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say—1A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—
2“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.”3The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
4The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.4The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
5May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!5May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
6Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,6May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
7with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,7unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
8nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!”8May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
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Psalm 128
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