Psalm 129

A song of degrees.

1  "Often they have distressed me from my youth." Let Yisra'ĕl now say,

2  "Often they have distressed me from my youth, But they have not overcome me.

3  "The ploughers ploughed on my back, They made their furrows long."

4  יהוה is righteous, He has cut the cords of the wicked in two.

5  Let all those who hate Tsiyon Be put to shame and turned back.

6  Let them be as the grass on the house-tops, Which withers before it grows up,

7  That shall not fill the reaper's hand, Nor the sheaves the binder's bosom.

8  And those who pass by shall not say, "The beraḵah of יהוה be upon you; We have baraḵ you in the Name of יהוה!"