Psalms, Chapter 129

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