Chapter 129 Being afflicted

1 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.

Chapter 130