Tehillim 129

1(Shir HaMa'alot)

Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur,

may Yisroel now say;

2Many a time have they afflicted me from my ne'ur (youth);

yet they have not prevailed against me.

3The choreshim (plowers) plowed upon my back;

they made long their furrows.

4Hashem is tzaddik;

He hath cut asunder the cords of the resha'im.

5Let them all be confounded

and turned back that hate Tziyon.1

6Let them be as the khatzir (grass) upon the housetops,

which withereth before it groweth up;

7With it the kotzer (reaper) filleth not his yad;

nor he that gathereth sheaves, his bosom.

8Neither do they which go by say,

Birkat Hashem be upon you;

we bless you b'Shem Hashem.