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  • A Song of degrees. "Many times they have afflicted me from my youth," Israel may now say;
  • 129:2  "Many times they have afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed over me.

    129:3  The plowers plowed upon my back; they made their furrows long."

    129:4  The LORD is righteous; He cuts off the cords of the wicked.

    129:5  Let them all be ashamed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

    129:6  Let them be like the grass upon the housetops which withers away before it grows up,

    129:7  With which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his bosom.

    129:8  Neither let those who pass by them say, "The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD."