Psalms 129 / 150
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(They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth)A Song of Ascents.
"Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth"--
let Israel now say--
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"Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,
yet they have not prevailed against me.
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The plowers plowed upon my back;
they made long their furrows."
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The Lord is righteous;
he has cut the cords of the wicked.
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May all who hate Zion
be put to shame and turned backward!
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Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up,
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with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,
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nor do those who pass by say,
"The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
We bless you in the name of the Lord!"