Psalm 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 ^[1]iniquity.

⁴ The righteous Lord hath 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 withereth before it is plucked up.

⁷ Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand,

nor he that maketh 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.

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