# Psalm 129 A Song of Ascents. 
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1. “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say— 
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2. “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. 
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3. The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.” 
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4. The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked. 
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5. May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward! 
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6. Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up, 
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7. with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms, 
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8. nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!” 

(ESV)