# Psalms 129 [[Psalms 128|←]] • [[Psalms 130|→]] --- A Song of degrees. ### 1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: ### 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. ### 3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. ### 4 The Lord righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. ### 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. ### 6 Let them be as the grass the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: ### 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. ### 8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.