| Chapter 129 |
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A Song of the going up.
Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say); --
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Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young, but my troubles have not overcome me. --
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The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made. --
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The Lord is true: the cords of the evil-doers are broken in two. --
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Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back. --
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Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth. --
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He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems. --
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And those who go by do not say, The blessing of the Lord be on you; we give you blessing in the name of the Lord. --
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