Psalm 129 – A Prayer for the Discomfiture of the Enemies of Zion

A song of ascents.

129 ‘Sore have they vexed me from youth’

thus let Israel say

2 ‘Sore have they vexed me from youth,

but they have not prevailed against me.

3 ‘The ploughers ploughed on my back,

they made their furrows long.

4 But the Lord, who is righteous, has cut

the cords of the wicked.’

5 Let all who are haters of Zion

be put to shame and defeated.

6 May they be as the grass on the house-top,

which withers before it shoots up;

7 which fills not the arms of the reaper,

nor the lap of the binder of sheaves

8 whereof no one says as they pass,

‘The blessing of God be upon you.’

In the name of the Lord we bless you.