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Chapter 129
Psal JPS 129:1  A Song of Ascents. 'Much have they afflicted me from my youth up', let Israel now say;
Psal JPS 129:2  'Much have they afflicted me from my youth up; but they have not prevailed against me.
Psal JPS 129:3  The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.
Psal JPS 129:4  HaShem is righteous; He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.'
Psal JPS 129:5  Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all they that hate Zion.
Psal JPS 129:6  Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;
Psal JPS 129:7  Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
Psal JPS 129:8  Neither do they that go by say: 'The blessing of HaShem be upon you; we bless you in the name of HaShem.'