Chapter 129

  Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,  

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  Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: 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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  Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.  

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  Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.  

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  Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;  

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  Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.  

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  Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah. Psalm 130 A Song of Ascents.  

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