Psalms 129
1A Canticle in steps. From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord.
2O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
3If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere?
4For with you, there is forgiveness, and because of your law, I persevered with you, Lord. My soul has persevered in his word.
5My soul has hoped in the Lord.
6From the morning watch, even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.
7For with the Lord there is mercy, and with him there is bountiful redemption.
8And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.