They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth
PSALM 129 [†] “Greatly [1] have they p afflicted me q from my youth”—
r let Israel now say—
2 “Greatly have they p afflicted me q from my youth,
s yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 t The plowers plowed u upon my back;
they made long their furrows.”
4 The LORD is righteous;
he has cut v the cords of the wicked.
be w put to shame and turned backward!
6 Let them be like x the grass on the housetops,
which y withers before it grows up,
7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
8 nor do those who pass by say,
a “The blessing of the LORD be upon you!
We b bless you in the name of the LORD!”
A Song of m Ascents.