Psalms

129:1		<A Song of the going up.> Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
129:2		Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me.
129:3		The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
129:4		The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two.
129:5		Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.
129:6		Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.
129:7		He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
129:8		And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord.