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Psalms 129

Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.

  1. 1
    WEBA Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:
    KJVA Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
  2. 2
    WEBmany times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
    KJVMany a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
  3. 3
    WEBThe plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
    KJVThe plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
  4. 4
    WEBYahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
    KJVThe LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
  5. 5
    WEBLet them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
    KJVLet them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
  6. 6
    WEBLet them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
    KJVLet them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
  7. 7
    WEBwith which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
    KJVWherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
  8. 8
    WEBNeither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in Yahweh’s name.”
    KJVNeither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
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