Psalm 129
or Coverdale
Spe expugnaverunt

¹"Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth," *
let Israel now say;
²"Greatly have they oppressed me since my youth, *
but they have not prevailed against me."
³The plowmen plowed upon my back *
and made their furrows long.
⁴The Lord, the Righteous One, *
has cut the cords of the wicked.
⁵Let them be put to shame and thrown back, *
all those who are enemies of Zion.
⁶Let them be like grass upon the housetops, *
which withers before it can be plucked;
⁷Which does not fill the hand of the reaper, *
nor the bosom of him who binds the sheaves;
⁸So that those who go by say not so much as,
"The Lord prosper you. *
We wish you well in the Name of the Lord."