Psalm 129

A Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion's Enemies

129¹ "They've kicked me around ever since I was young" - this is how Israel tells it - ² "They've kicked me around ever since I was young, but they never could keep me down. ³ Their plowmen plowed long furrows up and down my back; ⁴ Then God ripped the harnesses of the evil plowmen to shreds."

⁵ Oh, let all those who hate Zion grovel in humiliation; ⁶ Let them be like grass in shallow ground that withers before the harvest, ⁷ Before the farmhands can gather it in, the harvesters get in the crop, ⁸ Before the neighbors have a chance to call out, "Congratulations on your wonderful crop! We bless you in God's name!"