Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
시편 129
개요
시온의 포로가 돌아올 때 꿈꾸는 것 같았다고 노래한다. 눈물로 씨를 뿌리는 자가 기쁨으로 거두리라는 약속이 담긴 추수의 시이다.
Key Verses
Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
Full Text
1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4 The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8 Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the Lord be upon you: we bless you in the name of the Lord.