Psalm 129

New Coverdale Version

“Many a time have they fought against me from my youth on,” * may Israel now say;

“Indeed, many a time have they afflicted me from my youth on, * but they have not prevailed against me.

The plowers plowed upon my back, * and made long furrows.

But the righteous Lord * has hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.”

Let them be ashamed and turned backward, * as many as hate Zion.

Let them be as the grass growing upon the housetops, * which withers before it grows up,

Which does not fill the hand of the reaper, * neither the bosom of him who binds up the sheaves,

So that those who go by say not so much as, “The Lord prosper you. * We bless you in the Name of the Lord.”