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.
English Revised Version
Psalms 129
1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, let Israel now say; 2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: 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 be ashamed and turned backward, all they that hate Zion. 6Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom. 8Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you; we bless you in the name of the LORD.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.