CXXIX PRAYER FOR THE OVERTHROW OF ZION’S ENEMIES
A Song of Ascents.
[1] MANY〖Or, Much.〗 a time have they afflicted me from my youth up,
Let Israel now say,
[2] Many〖Or, Much.〗 a time have they afflicted me from my youth up:
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
[3] The plowers plowed upon my back;
They made long their furrows.
[4] Jehovah is righteous:
He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
[5] Let them be put to shame and turned backward,
All they that hate Zion.
[6] Let them be as the grass upon the housetops,
Which withereth before it groweth〖Or, is plucked up.〗 up;
[7] Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,
Nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom:
[8] Neither do they that go by say,
The blessing of Jehovah be upon you;
We bless you in the name of Jehovah.