Psalms 129

¹They have treated me badly all my life.

(Let Israel repeat this.)

²They have treated me badly all my life.

But they have not defeated me.

³Like farmers plowing, they plowed over my back,

making long wounds.

⁴But the Lord does what is right.

He has set me free from those wicked people.

⁵Let those who hate Jerusalem

be turned back in shame.

⁶Let them be like the grass on the roof.

It dries up before it has grown.

⁷There is not enough of it to fill a man’s hand

or to make into a bundle to fill his arms.

⁸Let those who pass by them not say,

“May the Lord bless you.

We bless you by the power of the Lord.”