Psalms 128
1 A Song of Degrees.
Many a time have they warred against me from my youth, let Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they warred against
me from my youth: and yet they prevailed not against me.
3 The sinners wrought upon my back:
they prolonged their
aשיך iniquity, easily read for שוכה a furrow.iniquity. 4 The righteous Lord has
cut asunder the necks of sinners.
5 Let all that hate Sion be put to
shame and turned back. 6 Let them be
as the grass of the house-tops, which withers before it is plucked up.
7 Wherewith the reaper fills not his
hand, nor he that makes up the sheaves, his bosom.
8 Neither do they that go by say, The
blessing of the Lord be upon you: we have blessed you in the name of the Lord.