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A Song of degrees.
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:*
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.†
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4 The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
* 129:1 Many…: or, Much † 129:2 Many…: or, Much