Psalms 129

1A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:Cross-references: Ex 1:12 · Ex 1:22 · Ex 5:7 · Judg 2:15 · Judg 3:8 · Judg 10:8 · +19 more

2many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.Cross-references: Job 5:19 · Ps 34:19 · Ps 42:1 · Ps 118:13 · Ps 125:1 · Matt 16:18 · +4 more

3The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.Cross-references: Ps 141:7 · Isa 51:23

4Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.Cross-references: Ezra 9:15 · Neh 9:33 · Ps 119:137 · Ps 124:6 · Ps 140:5 · Lam 1:18 · +2 more

5Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.Cross-references: Esth 6:13 · Esth 9:5 · Ps 71:13 · Ps 83:4 · Ps 122:6 · Isa 10:12 · +8 more

6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,Cross-references: 2Ki 19:26 · Ps 37:2 · Ps 92:7 · Isa 37:27 · Jer 17:5 · Matt 13:6

7with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.Cross-references: Ps 126:6 · Isa 17:10 · Hos 8:7 · Gal 6:8

8Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”Cross-references: Ruth 2:4 · Ps 118:26