Psalms. Chapter 129. A SONG OF THE ASCENTS. Often they distressed me from my youth, || Pray, let Israel say: Often they distressed me from my youth, || Yet they have not prevailed over me. Plowers have plowed over my back, || They have made their furrows long. YHWH is righteous, || He has cut apart cords of the wicked. All hating Zion are confounded and turn backward. They are as grass of the roofs, || That withers before it was drawn out, That has not filled the hand of a reaper, || And the bosom of a binder of sheaves. And the passers by have not said, “The blessing of YHWH is on you, || We blessed you in the Name of YHWH!”