Psalms 129
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A song of ascents.
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“Sore have they vexed me from youth” thus let Israel say
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“Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
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“The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long.
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But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.”
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Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated.
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May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up;
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which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves
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whereof no one says as they pass, “The blessing of God be upon you.” In the name of the Lord we bless you.
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