Psalm 129

A Prayer for the Overthrow of Zion's Enemies

129¹ Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.
Let Israel now say, ² many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,
yet they have not prevailed against me. ³ The plowers plowed on my back.
They made their furrows long. ⁴ Yahweh is righteous.
He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

⁵ Let them be disappointed and turned backward,
all those who hate Zion. ⁶ Let them be as the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up; ⁷ with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,
nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom. ⁸ Neither do those who go by say,
“The blessing of Yahweh be on you.
We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”