rsv Psalms:129
rsv@Psalms:129:1 @ A Song of Ascents.
rsv@Psalms:129:2 @ "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth," let Israel now say--
rsv@Psalms:129:3 @ "Sorely have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
rsv@Psalms:129:4 @ The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows."
rsv@Psalms:129:5 @ The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
rsv@Psalms:129:6 @ May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!
rsv@Psalms:129:7 @ Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
rsv@Psalms:129:8 @ with which the reaper does not fill his hand or the binder of sheaves his bosom, [ (Psalms strkjv@129:9) while those who pass by do not say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!" ]