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Psalms • Chapter 129
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From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me.<br>Let all Israel repeat this:<br>
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From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me,<br>but they have never defeated me.<br>
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My back is covered with cuts,<br>as if a farmer had plowed long furrows.<br>
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But the LORD is good;<br>he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly.<br>
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May all who hate Jerusalem<br>be turned back in shameful defeat.<br>
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May they be as useless as grass on a rooftop,<br>turning yellow when only half grown,<br>
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ignored by the harvester,<br>despised by the binder.<br>
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And may those who pass by<br>refuse to give them this blessing:<br>“The LORD bless you;<br>we bless you in the LORD’s name.”<br>
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