The Book of Psalms

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- Chapter 129 -

The snares of the wicked

I say that my enemies have afflicted me ever since I was young. Now I ask you, my fellow Israelites, to repeat those same words:

“Our enemies have afflicted us since our nation began, but they have not defeated us!

Our enemies struck us with whips that cut into our backs as a farmer uses a plow to cut deep furrows into the ground.”

But Yahweh is righteous, and he has freed us from being slaves to wicked people.

I wish that they may all be shamed because we will defeat them, all of Jerusalem’s enemies.

I hope that they may be of no value, like grass that grows on the roofs of houses, that dries up and does not grow tall;

no one wants to cut it and tie it up as bundles and carry it away.

People who pass by and see men harvesting grain usually greet them by saying to them, “We wish that Yahweh may bless you!” But this will not happen to the enemies of Israel. We, acting as Yahweh’s representatives, bless you, our fellow Israelites!

The snares of the wicked

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”