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Psalm 129

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1
"Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth,"
let Israel now say;
2
"Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth,
but they have not prevailed against me."
3
The plowmen plowed upon my back
and made their furrows long.
4
The LORD , the Righteous One,
has cut the cords of the wicked.
5
Let them be put to shame and thrown back,
all those who are enemies of Zion.
6
Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
which withers before it can be plucked;
7
Which does not fill the hand of the reaper,
nor the bosom of him who binds the sheaves;
8
So that those who go by say not so much as, "The LORD prosper you.
We wish you well in the Name of the LORD ."