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Psalms 129 (MSG)

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¹ A pilgrim song. "They've kicked me around ever since I was young" --this is how Israel tells it-- ² "They've kicked me around ever since I was young, but they never could keep me down. ³ Their plowmen plowed long furrows up and down my back; ⁴ Then GOD ripped the harnesses of the evil plowmen to shreds." ⁵ Oh, let all those who hate Zion grovel in humiliation; ⁶ Let them be like grass in shallow ground that withers before the harvest, ⁷ Before the farmhands can gather it in, the harvesters get in the crop, ⁸ Before the neighbors have a chance to call out, "Congratulations on your wonderful crop! We bless you in GOD's name!"