Psaltaren 129

1“Sore have they vexed me from youth” let Israel say 2“Sore have they vexed me from youth, but they have not prevailed against me. 3“The ploughers ploughed on my back, they made their furrows long. 4But the , Lordwho is righteous, has cut the cords of the wicked.” 5Let all who are haters of Zion be put to shame and defeated. 6May they be as the grass on the house-top, which withers before it shoots up; 7which fills not the arms of the reaper, nor the lap of the binder of sheaves