Song of Victory over Zion’s Enemies

Song of Ascents.

129 “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth,”Let Israel now say—² “Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth;Yet they have not prevailed against me.³ The plowers plowed on my back;They made their furrows long.”⁴ The Lord is righteous;He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked.

⁵ Let all those who hate ZionBe put to shame and turned back.⁶ Let them be as the grass on the housetops,Which withers before it grows up,⁷ With which the reaper does not fill his hand,Nor he who binds sheaves, his arms.⁸ Neither let those who pass by them say,“The blessing of the Lord be upon you;We bless you in the name of the Lord!”