Psalm 129

A Pilgrim Song ^1-4"They've kicked me around ever since I was young" —this is how Israel tells it—
   "They've kicked me around ever since I was young,
      but they never could keep me down.
   Their plowmen plowed long furrows
      up and down my back;
   Then GOD ripped the harnesses
      of the evil plowmen to shreds."

^5-8    Oh, let all those who hate Zion
      grovel in humiliation;
   Let them be like grass in shallow ground
      that withers before the harvest,
   Before the farmhands can gather it in,
      the harvesters get in the crop,
   Before the neighbors have a chance to call out,
      "Congratulations on your wonderful crop!
      We bless you in GOD's name!"