Psalms 129

1(Shir HaMa'alot) 1 may Yisroel now say; 1

2Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur (youth); 1 yet they have not prevailed against me. 1

3The choreshim (plowers) plowed upon my back; 1 they made long their furrows. 1

4Hashem is tzaddik; 1 He hath cut asunder the cords of the resha'im. 1

5Let them all be confounded 1 and turned back that hate Tziyon. + 129:5 i.e, all anti-Semites 1

6Let them be as the khatzir (grass) upon the housetops, 1 which withereth before it groweth up; 1

7With it the kotzer (reaper) filleth not his yad; 1 nor he that gathereth sheaves, his bosom. 1

8Neither do they which go by say, 1 Birkat Hashem be upon you; 1 we bless you b'Shem Hashem.

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