Psalm 129

Translated from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Tap a verse to see why it reads as it does. Tap a small letter to read its footnote.

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Attacked often, never defeated

¹A song of ascents. Again and again they have attacked me since I was young — let Israel say it now. ²Again and again they have attacked me since I was young, but they have never beaten me. ³They ran their plows over my back and cut long furrows in it. ⁴The LORD does what is right: he has cut through the ropes of the wicked. ⁵May everyone who hates Zion be disgraced and driven back. ⁶May they be like grass growing on a roof, which dries up before it can grow tall, ⁷too little to fill a reaper’s hand or to make an armful for the one who ties the sheaves, ⁸and no one passing by calls out, “The LORD’s blessing be on you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!”