Psalm 129
Saepe expugnaverunt
1 MANY a time have they fought against me from my youth up * may Israel now say.
2 Yea, many a time have they vexed me from my youth up * but they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back * and made long furrows.
4 But the righteous Lord * hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.
5 Let them be confounded and turned backward * as many as have evil will at Sion.
6 Let them be even as the grass growing upon the house-tops * which withereth afore it be plucked up;
7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand * neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom.
8 So that they who go by say not so much as, The Lord prosper you * we wish you good luck in the Name of the Lord.