Psalm 129, side by side
Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.
1A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— let Israel now declare—
1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.
3The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
4The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.
4The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
5May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.
5Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.
6May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
7unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
8May none who pass by say to them, “The blessing of the LORD be on you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.”
8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
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