Psalm 129:2

Verse 2 of 8. The 129th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

4The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.