Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
Darby Translation
Psalms 129
1A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth — oh let Israel say — 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me. 3The ploughers ploughed upon my back; they made long their furrows. 4Jehovah is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. 5Let them be ashamed and turned backward, all that hate Zion; 6Let them be as the grass upon the house-tops, which withereth before it is plucked up, 7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom; 8Neither do the passers-by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; we bless you in the name of Jehovah!
John Nelson Darby Translation (1890). Public domain or openly redistributable. Confirm the exact edition before public display if text is later imported.