[129:1] Israel, tell us how your enemies have persecuted you ever since you were young.
[129:2] “Ever since I was young, my enemies have persecuted me cruelly, but they have not overcome me.
[129:3] They cut deep wounds in my back and made it like a plowed field.
[129:4] But the Lord, the righteous one, has freed me from slavery.”
[129:5] May everyone who hates Zion be defeated and driven back.
[129:6] May they all be like grass growing on the housetops, which dries up before it can grow;
[129:7] no one gathers it up or carries it away in bundles.
[129:8] No one who passes by will say, “May the Lord bless you! We bless you in the name of the Lord.”