Psalm 129
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Psalm 129 recalls repeated oppression from Israel's youth without granting it the final word. Deep wounds remain visible, but binding cords are cut and exploiters become as temporary as shallow rooftop grass.
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1A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. Often they distressed me from my youth, || Pray, let Israel say:
2Often they distressed me from my youth, || Yet they have not prevailed over me.
3Plowers have plowed over my back, || They have made their furrows long.
4YHWH [is] righteous, || He has cut apart cords of the wicked.
5All hating Zion [are] confounded and turn backward.
6They are as grass of the roofs, || That withers before it was drawn out,
7That has not filled the hand of a reaper, || And the bosom of a binder of sheaves.
8And the passers by have not said, “The blessing of YHWH [is] on you, || We blessed you in the Name of YHWH!”
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