Psalms 129— MSG

1"They've kicked me around ever since I was young" - this is how Israel tells it -

2"They've kicked me around ever since I was young, but they never could keep me down.

3Their plowmen plowed long furrows up and down my back;

4Then God ripped the harnesses of the evil plowmen to shreds."

5Oh, let all those who hate Zion grovel in humiliation;

6Let them be like grass in shallow ground that withers before the harvest,

7Before the farmhands can gather it in, the harvesters get in the crop,

8Before the neighbors have a chance to call out, "Congratulations on your wonderful crop! We bless you in God's name!"

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