Psalm 129

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹ “Often have they attacked me from my youth”
    —let Israel now say—
² “often have they attacked me from my youth,
    yet they have not prevailed against me.
³ The plowers plowed on my back;
    they made their furrows long.”
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
    that withers before it grows up,
⁷ with which reapers do not fill their hands
    or binders of sheaves their arms,
⁸ while those who pass by do not say,
    “The blessing of the Lord be upon you!
    We bless you in the name of the Lord!”