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Psalms 129
Many Times They Have Afflicted Me
1“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”
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let Israel now say— 2 “Greatly 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 is righteous;
he has cut the cords of the wicked. 5 May all who hate Zion
be put to shame and turned backward! 6 Let them be like the grass on the housetops,
which withers before it grows up, 7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms, 8 nor do those who pass by say,
“The blessing of the LORD be upon you!
We bless you in the name of the LORD!”
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